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

[Michael Ryan <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Read "Dealers of Lightening" by Michael Hiltzik...all out Parc back in the
day..fascinating...freaking brilliant people.

On 9/1/04 08:32 PM, "mshaw2456@xxxxxxxxxxx" <mshaw2456@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.
>> 
>> -- 
>> JHHL 
>> 
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