On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Jerry Weihrauch wrote: > Where would we be today if Digital Research had provided IBM with an > operating system "CP/M"? Where would Bill Gates be now? > Would it be open source, would we have a "Windows" type GUI or something > else? Would we have "point and click icons"? Yes, because these didn't come from Microsoft, they came from Xerox Parc by way of Apple. If fact, we probably would have gotten it sooner- even Unix had a GUI by mid/late eighties. Brian