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The PC graphical user interface arrives; Microsoft Windows proves there's life in DOS yet. (column)

Industrial Distribution, October, 1990 by Harper, Doug

The PC graphical user interface arrives Undoubtedly the biggest news in the PC arena this year is Microsoft Corp.'s introduction of version 3.0 of Windows, a graphical users interfade (GUI). The new release is a major improvement over Microsoft's original and less-than-successful Windows introduced five years ago.

with the debut of Windows 3.0, Microsoft has given a new lease on life to MS-DOS and PC-DOS, the operating system developed by Microsoft in collaboration with IBM. Although Microsoft's Disk Operating System (DOS) rapidly became the microcomputer industry's de facto standard, many users found its arcane command structure difficult to use. More importantly, however, DOS was designed for a maximum of 640 kilobytes of random access...

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