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

[mshaw2456@xxxxxxxxxxx]

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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