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From: ebcs4590@rocky.oswego.edu (Stephen Garrell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Origins of the Mac Environment
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Date: 23 Apr 88 20:53:07 GMT
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In article <2662@im4u.UUCP> suhler@im4u.UUCP (Paul A. Suhler) writes:
>I've heard on this newsgroup that:
>1) Apple licensed the icon-based environment of the Mac from Xerox;

This past winter I had an interview with Xerox.  While there They showed
me their latest work-stationns, it looked remarkably like a Mac.  They told
me that the Mac was designed by a Xerox employee who quit and went to work
with Apple.  Along with him went the Xerox secrets.

I can't be any more specific than this but the source is extremely reliable.
Perhaps you should ask in comp.sys.xerox(?) for more specific information since
this was a big scandle at Xerox.

						Stephen Garrell