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To: Ol' Dan Tucker
While the look and feel of the Mac interface is different from the PARC model, the Mac's predecessor's (Lisa) interface was not.

False. Apple added movable, renamable, drag-and-droppable icons, among other innovations. And it's worth mentioning that Apple toured PARC with Xerox's permission, and Apple didn't steal anything -- Xerox was compensated by being allowed to buy shares in Apple, which at the time was not publicly traded.

Not to mention that PARC is where the whole idea of a mouse-driven interface originated

False. Douglas Englebart patented the first mouse in 1967 and demonstrated it in 1968. He was at the Stanford Research Institute at the time. Several members of his SRI team later moved to PARC, where they continued to develop the idea. Several members of the Star/Alto team at PARC went on to join the Macintosh team at Apple.

I always like to hear folks talk about how innovative and fast Apple's early OS was.

For the time. System 1 was miles ahead of any version of Windows up to at least 3.1.

66 posted on 05/28/2008 11:36:06 AM PDT by ReignOfError
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To: ReignOfError
Xerox was compensated by being allowed to buy shares in Apple, which at the time was not publicly traded.

Close... Apple GAVE Xerox 1 million shares of pre-IPO stock in exchange for the two visits to PARC and permission to use anything they learned on their visits.

86 posted on 05/28/2008 9:06:06 PM PDT by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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