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

[Pat Barber <mboceanside@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

Carl Galgano wrote:
> 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
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> Subject: Re: Who invented the GUI, was RE: Moving to Mac
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> 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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