Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!srcsip!gorby!mnkonar From: mnkonar@gorby.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Murat N. Konar) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Fwd: Xerox - Apple Computer Suit -2- Message-ID: <50945@srcsip.UUCP> Date: 19 Dec 89 01:58:07 GMT References: <21846@usc.edu> <129381@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Sender: news@src.honeywell.COM Reply-To: mnkonar@gorby.UUCP (Murat N. Konar) Organization: Honeywell Systems & Research Center, Camden, MN Lines: 29 In article <129381@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> fiddler%concertina@Sun.COM (Steve Hix) writes: >In article <21846@usc.edu>, papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes: >> How about this one: its is widely known that Steve Jobs *STOLE* a number >> of Xerox PARC employees to start the Lisa project. > >They were bound and gagged? Handcuffed to their desks, perhaps? > >A number of major contributors to the Mac and Lisa OS effort had no prior >connection to PARC at all. Paraphrasing from an interview/article I read about 4 years ago: Jobs took a tour of PARC since at the time Xerox was a significant stock holder in Apple. He saw the GUI's thay had up and running and asked what Xerox would do with them. The scientists there lamented that Xerox had no real plans to bring that stuff to market to which Jobs replied (something like) "well, if Xerox isn't going to do anything with this technology, I am!" at which point several key people decided Apple was a cooler place to work than Xerox, and left. BTW, one guy left PARC and joined Microsoft (I know, hard to believe). He was a key contributor to a PARC word processor called Bravo. His knowledge of Bravo spawned (barf) Word. ____________________________________________________________________ Have a day. :^| Murat N. Konar Honeywell Systems & Research Center, Camden, MN mnkonar@SRC.honeywell.com (internet) {umn-cs,ems,bthpyd}!srcsip!mnkonar(UUCP)