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From: trebor@biar.UUCP (Robert J Woodhead)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Fwd: Xerox - Apple Computer Suit -2-
Message-ID: <991@biar.UUCP>
Date: 19 Dec 89 05:18:35 GMT
References: <5827@internal.Apple.COM>
Organization: Biar Games, Inc.
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casseres@apple.com (David Casseres) writes:

>In article <986@biar.UUCP> trebor@biar.UUCP (Robert J Woodhead) writes:
>> nobody denies
>> that a large part of the basics of the windowing interface in general,
>> and the Mac implementation in particular, were developed and tested at
>> Xerox PARC.

>This one is a bit too outrageous to let pass.  Absolutely _no_ part of the 
>Mac implementation was developed and tested at PARC.  Furthermore, the 
>basic concept of multiple windows came from SRI, as did the mouse.  Should 
>SRI be suing Xerox?

David,

I may be guilty of poor phrasing.  What I intended to imply was that the
basics of the GUI's (or WIMP interfaces if you will) were developed at
Xerox (windows, menus, icons, scrolling, etc), and then considerably
expanded and improved at Apple.  I did not mean to imply that the unique
aspects of the Mac interface (pulldown menus, particular details of the
look of windows, etc) were developed at PARC.

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