On 6/12/13 07:35 : , Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> You're perfectly welcome to keep your Mac but you should not call
> Windows a Mac ripoff. Both are a ripoff of the Xerox Alto created by
> Xerox PARC. But it's good that Jobs and Gates came along and took what
> they did. Xerox hadn't a clue about the value of what they had. The
> Alto would still be languishing in the lab.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
Agreed. Between a windowing GUI, a WYSIWYG word processor,
object-oriented programming, a practical mouse (I know Engelbart
invented it), ethernet, Postscript, and laser printer technology, Xerox
could have ruled the world had they not been such stubborn, old-school
copierheads.
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