26 Jun
1997
26 Jun
'97
8:33 a.m.
On Thu, 26 Jun 1997 starling(a)umr.edu wrote:
However, the Lisa still lives on. Every time you pull
down a window
you're using Lisa technology. Lisa was also the first to have an
integrated office suite which could cut-n-paste between apps. Xerox
provided much of the inspiration, but Lisa polished the GUI into a usable
system. It's really quite impressive for a machine designed 78-81 and
released in 82.
Actually, Xerox had a working GUI-based system (the name eludes me at the
moment) well before the LISA, which is where Jobs got his inspiration
from. So your comment about windows being based on Lisa technology is
not fair to Xerox. Of course Bill would disavow any knowledge of both of
these machines and tell us that Windows is, in fact, the One True God.
Sam
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