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From: mfi@serc.cis.ufl.edu (Mark Interrante)
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Subject: Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!
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Date: 19 Dec 89 03:49:15 GMT
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In article <50944@srcsip.UUCP> mnkonar@gorby.UUCP (Murat N. Konar) writes:
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>You know you guys, it's not like Apple denies using the work done at Xerox
>and other places as the basis of their interface design.  Look at their
>interface guidlines book (at the bookstore, you don't have to buy it) and
>read the introduction (or preface; I can't remember exactly), and it states
>plainly that Apple's desktop interface has its roots in work done at Xerox.
>No lie.  

Apple Interface guidlines page 123

"The apple employees who created the apple desktop interface had been
involved in, or were influenced by important research at several
institutions of the last 20 years.

In the late 60's the augmentation research project at SRI made
important contributions.  ...

The argumentation approach led to hardware innovations the principle
example of which is the mouse...

Important work at Xerox PARC... In the 1970s PARC provided the first
explicit expression of the computer desktop.  PARCS desktop featured
windows that overlap, much like overlapping pieces of paper on a real
desktop. ICONS typically representing familiar objects appeared on the
desktop to provide direct and visible access to files, operations, and
so on. Bit mapped graphics enabled users to directly combone text and
graphics. 

At apple in the late 70's and early 80's the lisa computer carried the
work further.  A range of features now familiar oin the apple desktop
interface- including menubar, one-button mouse, dialog boxes, the
clipboard,and trashcan- were introduced with the lisa..."

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