Re: Who invented the GUI, was RE: Moving to Mac

Nope... a guy at Stanford named Douglas Engelbart
who still lives. He held around 45 patents on
computer related inventions including "windows".

Do a google on "Who invented the mouse"...

I would share a URL but my software(windows) seems
to have forgotten how to "copy" and "paste" this
morning.

I believe Xerox also invented the mouse.
cjg

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-----Original Message-----
From: mshaw2456@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mshaw2456@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 8:33 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Who invented the GUI, was RE: Moving to Mac

The BIGGEST mistake Xerox ever made was letting Steve Jobs see what they had
working in their labs.  In almost a neck-and-neck tie was the Xerox
executives in not realizing what they had in hand there.  They were a copier
company and this stuff did nothing to sell more copiers........... Regards,
Mike Shaw

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XEROX

Well, yes, Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center developed the first GUI,
ancestor of the Lisa (anybody remember that Mac-forerunner?), Macintosh, WinDoze, the Amiga, XWindows, GEM, GEOS, and other GUIs even more obscure.

Didn't they also invent SmallTalk?

But today's Macintosh L&F is hardly even recognizable as the same
look-and-feel as what you got on a Mac128.

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JHHL

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