Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!rutgers!seismo!elsie!imsvax!ted From: ted@imsvax.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Apple & Nitpikking Message-ID: <682@imsvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 12-Feb-87 06:58:56 EST Article-I.D.: imsvax.682 Posted: Thu Feb 12 06:58:56 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 13-Feb-87 05:48:40 EST Organization: IMS Inc, Rockville MD Lines: 16 Piers Cawley of Nottingham Univ. writes: >> Picture Henry Ford having patented the automobile or the Wright >This side of the pond he wouldn't have got the patent, someone called >Benz had the idea first. He even built the odd car or two! -- I was hoping someone would pick up on this one. You see, Apple didn't invent the 8010 interface either; the analogy wouldn't have been entirely good if I'd used Benz instead of Ford. Ted Holden, IMS