Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uunet!visix!amanda From: amanda@visix.com (Amanda Walker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Don't use MPW GCC if you respect RMS's wishes Message-ID: Date: 21 Dec 90 17:40:48 GMT References: <32371.27684118@stjhmc.fidonet.org> <7606@castle.ed.ac.uk> <11603@goofy.Apple.COM> Organization: Visix Software Inc., Reston, VA Lines: 18 In article <11603@goofy.Apple.COM> chewy@apple.com (Paul Snively) writes: >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. Indeed. Having used a number of Xerox machines (including the Alto), I'd say that Apple built on work done at Xerox. Claiming that the Mac interface was invented at PARC, however, is a little like saying that the Mac hardware was invented at Motorola and MMI because it uses a 68000 and PALs, or that the Dodge Omni was invented by Volkswagen because it looked kinda like a VW Rabbit... -- Amanda Walker amanda@visix.com Visix Software Inc. ...!uunet!visix!amanda -- "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for it makes them soggy and hard to light." --Robert Anton Wilson