19 Jan
2010
19 Jan
'10
2:04 p.m.
From the comments section of the article
Xerox brass had no concept of what they had on their hands. PARC was an
enclave of some brilliant engineers who, among other things, came up with
the original concept of the GIU - though it was apparently fairly
rudimentary. Xerox management lacked the vision to run with it. By the time
they figured out what they had, it was too late. Apple and Wintel had
already defined the personal computer
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On 1/19/10, Brian Lanning <brianlanning at gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Rich Alderson <RichA at vulcan.com> wrote:
favor of
>
From:Christian Liendo
> Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 12:56 PM
> Subject: Wired Article, On Jan 19, 1983 Apple unveils Lisa
From: Ian King
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 1:19 PM
Does this guy not know how to spell
"Alto"?
He is, after all, writing for *_WiReD_*.
Tesler's comment regarding Smalltalk vs. the Star hardware argues in an Alto influence, but the team probably saw both
the Star and the Alto
at
PARC.
I've always heard the story told the way the article reads... that
apple stole from xerox and microsoft stole from apple, who sued
microsoft, etc. I'm always left wondering why xerox didn't stomp on
both of them.
brian