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From: Lawson.English@p88.f15.n300.z1.fidonet.org (Lawson English)
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Subject: Re: Don't use MPW GCC if you respect RMS's wishes
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Date: 19 Dec 90 14:50:19 GMT
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A J Cunningham writes in a message to All

>Sorry Jack,
>Apple spent oddles of man-years and gazillions of dollars developing the 
whole
>thing.
AJC>   Sorry Lawson, but this just isn't true. Ever heard of PARC? 
AJC> That's where apple GUI was born. Xerox developed the whole desktop 
AJC> concept in computing. Apple brought it to the real world. Very 
AJC> few things in life are the product of one person or company. 
AJC> We all build on the work of others. If we stop co-operating then 
AJC> we all lose big

If you have ever worked on a SmallTalk-80 system, you would never make such
a silly claim. Of COURSE Apple built on the work at PARC, but the 
implementation
of windows and events is different from the primitives up. Consider this: the
first SmallTalk-80 on the Mac had to be rewritten to handle larger screens (I
know, I watched it break on an accellerator/big screen board for the Plus).
It seems that the way SmallTalk-80 and the way the Mac handle graphics are so
different, that the good SmallTalk-80 people had to implement a BitBlt from
the ground up, using none of the Apple QuickDraw ROM to do it. If Apple had
copied a substantial portion of the Xerox GUI directly, wouldn't you expect
them to be compatable?


Lawson
 

 

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