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To: Scrapps who wrote (7296)	10/22/1997 9:48:00 PM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

Sorry, nada on Ventura Publisher. I do remember the name from way back though. Are you suggesting that Xerox should try to beat some money out of MSFT? BTW, I'm sure you are also aware that the original prototype for the PC with a graphical user interface with a mouse was invented at Xerox's Palo Alto Research facility. Just thought I'd post this story about Internet access. The author can count 20 million dial-up users, which doesn't count anyone behind a firewall. So he estimates "easily" 40-50 million internet users. techweb.com

To: Scrapps who wrote (7296)	10/22/1997 10:44:00 PM
From: drmorgan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

Derek or anyone, have you ever seen the first version of Zerox's Ventura Publisher (VP)? No, but I find your story very interesting. I never saw Windows 1.2. Actaully my first PC experience came in 1985 when a company I worked for got me a IBM 286 with EGA Graphics! I don't think I saw Windows until '87. I went out and searched around but couldn't find anything from search engines. I gotta friend who used VP in '87 and probably still has it loaded up on his old 286! I'll ask him about VP and windows. Perhaps $ill stole it from them like so many other things Microsoft has innovated! <gg> BTW, did you see the movie Revenge, no I mean Triumph of the Nerds on PBS? If you didn't catch it keep an eye out for it as it has some very intersting computer history... Derek