24 Jan
2024
24 Jan
'24
2:42 p.m.
On Wednesday, January 24, 2024 at 02:16:44 PM PST, Sellam Abraham via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
[...]
But basically, Jobs never stole anything. He was
pretty much invited to
take a look, and then entered into some sort of exclusivity deal (I may be
wrong about this detail) to use Xerox tech. Xerox upper execs didn't see a
market in this kind of hardware; copiers were their game, so they didn't
get what they had, and didn't care. If anything, Apple should be thanked
for taking what would have been deadend technology at Xerox and making a
product with it. Basically.
Not exactly. Xerox *did* have products based on the D-machines (DandeLion, DandeTiger,
etc).
They were a commercial failure. Allegedly (from a Lisp-machine user at the time) at least
in part because the Xerox sales force only knew how to sell devices that had a toner
hooper.
Wikipedia on the Daybreak (last D*-machine) says they were used extensively withi Xerox
until replaced by PCs r Sun workstations.