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From: kdmoen@watcgl.UUCP
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Subject: Re: environment's inventors
Message-ID: <1681@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Date: Mon, 31-Aug-87 10:53:02 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 31 10:53:02 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 1-Sep-87 01:40:22 EDT
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Reply-To: kdmoen@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Doug Moen)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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Keywords: mouse window xerox

gbs@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Gideon Sheps) writes:
>Apple did NOT invent the mouse, the window or anything else intrinsic
>to the MacIntosh (or Amiga or MS-Windows) environment, they couldn't
>successfully sue anyone for anything. Lawyers looking for a client
>are refered to Xerox and the origional Smalltalk prototype systems that
>goes back , what is it ? almost 10 years now?

Well, Smalltalk goes back to 1972, which is 15 years ago.
The mouse was invented at Stanford in the late 60's by Doug Englebart.
I once saw a claim that windows were invented long before Smalltalk as
well, but I can't find the reference or substantiate it.

PS: Back in 1982 I tried, and failed, to get a mouse for my
personal computer.  (Most people in the microcomputer industry had
never heard of them, and I couldn't find any mouse manufacturers).
Interesting how much things have progressed in 5 years.

PPS: Has anybody used NLS, by Englebart?  How does it compare
to the sort of things that are being done with Macintoshes nowadays?
-- 
Doug Moen
University of Waterloo Computer Graphics Lab
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