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To: Wooly

Didn’t Apple try to claim copyright for gui against MS widows but some Computer scientist had demonstrated it at Stanford.


8 posted on 08/25/2011 1:45:39 AM PDT by the_daug
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To: the_daug

Xerox was the first with a graphical user interface “GUI”. I believe the guys from Apple were given a demonstration of it.

And the rest is history...


14 posted on 08/25/2011 2:05:16 AM PDT by DB
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To: the_daug

Apple also stole the mouse from Xerox’s Palo Alto research center when Steve Jobs saw it demonstrated on a visit and to this day many people still believe Apple invented it.

They also don’t give Woz enough credit for apple’s early products. His work on their first CPUs was simply brilliant.


20 posted on 08/25/2011 2:30:11 AM PDT by Proud_USA_Republican ("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.")
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To: the_daug

Yes, Microsoft was able to show that both Macintosh OS and Windows were derived from the earlier Xerox PARC gui.


50 posted on 08/25/2011 6:41:20 AM PDT by Boogieman
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