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From: chewy@apple.com (Paul Snively)
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Subject: Re: Don't use MPW GCC if you respect RMS's wishes
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Date: 20 Dec 90 19:29:03 GMT
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References:<32371.27684118@stjhmc.fidonet.org> <7606@castle.ed.ac.uk>

In article <7606@castle.ed.ac.uk> tjc@castle.ed.ac.uk (A J Cunningham) 
writes:
> >Sorry Jack,
> >Apple spent oddles of man-years and gazillions of dollars developing 
the whole
> >thing.
> 
>         Sorry Lawson, but this just isn't true. Ever heard of PARC?
> That's where apple GUI was born. Xerox developed the whole desktop
> concept in computing. Apple brought it to the real world.

It might be more accurate to say that the interface was in some way 
conceived at PARC.  PARC had overlapping windows and a mouse, but Apple 
did some specific things: pull-down menus, the notion of double-clicking 
on iconic representations of something to "open" them, and so forth.

I've heard the "PARC invented it and Apple sold it" argument many times 
before--generally from people who've never used a Xerox Star, Alto, 
Dorado, Dolphin, or any of the systems in question other than a Macintosh.

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                                Paul Snively
                      Macintosh Developer Technical Support
                             Apple Computer, Inc.

chewy@apple.com

Just because I work for Apple Computer, Inc. doesn't mean that I believe 
what they believe, or vice-versa.
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