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From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga (Innovations)
Message-ID: <1991Mar16.012516.13068@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 16 Mar 91 01:25:16 GMT
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kdarling@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) writes:

>But yes, I believe Apple licensed Smalltalk from Xerox.  One of the
>more interesting interviews in BYTE magazine btw, was with the Lisa
>team back when it was unveiled...

>Q: "Do you have a Xerox Star here that you work with?"

>A: "No, we didn't have one here.  We went to the NCC when the Star was
>announced and looked at it.  And in fact it did have an immediate impact.

  Yes, this Lisa team included Larry Tesler (now head of Apple
Advanced Products).  Larry had worked at Xerox for some years before
Apple - I recall his articles on Smalltalk which appeared in Byte
[remember when Byte used to devote each year's August issue to a new
computer language... Smalltalk was in one of those (Aug 1980 I think
off the top of my head).  I remember it had another beautiful Robert 
Tinney cover drawing.
Ahhh those were the days - maybe we should take this to
alt.folklore.computers :-)]

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