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Re: [OM] Longevity of computing devices, was More Memory (OT)

Subject: Re: [OM] Longevity of computing devices, was More Memory (OT)
From: Charles Geilfuss <charles.geilfuss@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 14:23:15 -0400
  I cannot verify the Accuracy but...


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_graphical_user_interface

Scroll down to Xerox PARC.  Don't know if it was "stolen" but Xerox seems to
have developed the first GUI.

Charlie

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 1:56 PM, manuel viet <manuel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Le vendredi 01 octobre 2010 17:30:21, Chuck Norcutt a écrit :
> > I won't attempt to argue with anything you've said because it's all
> > correct... except for the bit about Microsoft stealing the Mac's
> > interface.  They were both stolen from Xerox.  :-)
>
> Untrue. This is computer lore, but in fact Apple did bought a licence for
> the
> GUI prior to building Macintosh. They paid with some Apple shares, at the
> time.
>
> OTOH, Windows *did* steal the GUI concept from apple.
>
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