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From: sbrunnoc@hawk.ulowell.edu (Sean Brunnock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: The "Macintoy" chant is getting tired
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Date: 22 Jun 89 14:09:49 GMT
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From article <4627@ficc.uu.net>, by peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva):
> In article <41604@bbn.COM>, mesard@bbn.com (Wayne Mesard) writes:
>>   3) The Mac solved the user interface problem.  It didn't perfect it.
> 
> The Xerox Star solved the user interface problem. The Mac took this
> solution and tried to cram it into a 128K box. 

   Alan Kay (working at Xerox) solved the user interface problem. His 
machine was the Dynabook which was available as early as 1973. The
Xerox Star was introduced about a year after the Mac.

   It is a shame that people thought $10,000 was too high a price to 
to pay for a state of the art machine (the Lisa).


					Sean Brunnock