[Strk321]

You don’t know that Xerox invented the first GUI?

[This Just In]

Has Jobs claimed to have invented the first GUI?

[isthisnickcool]

The first graphical interface was invented by Xerox at PARC. The machine was called the Alto.

I don’t think Jobs ever said he invented the GUI. Or the mouse. He did “rip them off”.

As far as Apple goes today Mac OS X is built on BSD. Which is a POSIX compliant unix OS. Jobs did not invent Unix, that is for sure:)

Jobs scabbed other peoples work too. But in a much prettier way than Gates...

[Tribune7]

You don’t know that Xerox invented the first GUI?

I think he's taking issue with the claim that Apple "stole" it.

It didn't

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Everyone in the computer business — and most certainly Xerox (Xerox made high end word processors) knew about the GUI. None of them recognized the significance of it. In fact, most IT “experts” at the time were hostile to the idea — dismissing it as a toy. Jobs saw it for what it could do for computing “for the rest of us”. He took it from the lab rats at PARC, and turned it into a practical, functioning product that met the needs of the market.

You could compare Jobs to Christopher Columbus. Mariners knew for centuries that the “scientific consensus” was bogus — that the world was round not flat. None of them sailed off to “the ends of the world” on that knowledge. That's why there's a “Columbus” day.