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From: fiddler%concertina@Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!
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Date: 20 Dec 89 19:33:35 GMT
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In article <935@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU>, csachs@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Colin Sachs) writes:
> (Jeffrey M White) writes: [In reply to (Chris Newbold) re:Xerox suit)
> 
> > It's hardly like Apple all of a sudden came out
> > with an interface that looks like the Xerox one. 
> 
> No.  But the fact remains that Xerox had the graphical interface and windows
> concept long before the Apple Mac's even existed.  And Apple did not
> develope the concept independently.  

Nor did Xerox.  Much of the foundation to their work was developed at places
like SRI.  Xerox did not do their work in a vacuum.

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