7 Nov
2002
7 Nov
'02
7:55 p.m.
I Agree, I never thought it fair the whole Apple-DRI lawsuit seeing as GEM
was already being shown in late 83' and the fact that as you stated, the
Finder (actually going farther back, the Lisa Office) were right from
examination of the Xerox GUI, Win 1.0 was a total joke and Win 2.0 was still
a giggle and yes, its strange how Atari's TOS (CP/M68 & GEM) was left alone.
Curt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lawrence Walker" <lgwalker(a)mts.net>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 9:40 PM
Subject: Xerox Parc
Something that I have always wondered about is why
Xerox never sued
Jobs ass off for the Mac GUI and also MSWindows which was derrived from
Xerox's 'Small-Talk". They were a major corporation and Apple was quick
enough to disembowel DRI's GEM altho Sam's Atari ST still continued to use
an updated version of the original. MS has also litigated any threat to
their
bullying dominance and despite the protestations of
the C-64 fans GEOS
(any coincidence there) is obviously a clone of the GEM desktop. The mouse
was also developed at Palo Alto. I have trouble simply accepting that a
major
corporation like XEROX was simply a stupid wimp. From
all evidence I've
seen Xerox invented the GUI. Something more important than CP/M,
MSDOS, or UNIX. What am I missing here.
Lawrence
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