Brain Fart - which Xerox computer started GUI? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

21 Jun 1999

According to "Dealers of Lightning - Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer
Age" it was the Alto.

Bob

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On Sunday, June 20, 1999 10:14 PM, Glenatacme(a)aol.com [SMTP:Glenatacme@aol.com] wrote:
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  In a message dated 6/20/99 10:06:55 PM Eastern
Daylight Time, 
 rcini(a)email.msn.com writes:

      I just finished watching "Pirates of
Silicon Valley" on TNT, an
  interesting interpretation of the dynamics between Apple and Microsoft from
  1975 to 1997.

      Here's the question -- what was the name of the computer at Xerox that
  Steve Jobs "modeled" the Lisa/Mac after? Was it the Alto or the Star?  
 Definitely it was the Star.  My ex worked at Xerox from '85 through '87.  
 Some details in "Pirates" were, um, a little "inaccurate," but they
got one 
 thing right -- there were a lot of really pissed off people at Xerox when the 
 Apple GUI hit the streets.

 Glen Goodwin
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