Think they’re giving too much credit to Gates and not enough to the Xerox GUI system (Alto) that Windows is a clone of, which included the mouse.
71 posted on
11/20/2020 11:17:14 PM PST by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: Olog-hai
Xerox PARC was indeed the start of nearly everything we know of as graphical user interfaces and environments. Apple stole from them, Microsoft stole from them, Microsoft stole from Apple, and on and on.
73 posted on
11/20/2020 11:25:10 PM PST by
dayglored
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