Re: The Apple ][ was crap

[Charles Richmond <richmond@ev1.net>]

Lord of the Flies wrote:
> 
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> The people most certainly knew that they were onto something.  They were
> sent to an isolated cabin as in an artistic retreat back in the days when
> that sort of thing was more appreciated.  It was an old-fashioned
> computer "love-in," and you bet that they had a steady supply of grass,
> too.  And after weeks or more of mind-expanding brain-storming came a
> revolutionary creation.  One that would eventually change the world.  Only
> not in the way that was expected.
> 
> Jobs came snoopin' about (filthy bastard!) and picked up on what they were
> onto as well.  And in much the same way as CBS gained industrial
> intelligence from Gene Rodenberry about _his_ baby and then made _Lost in_
> _Space_, Jobs took the knowledge back to Apple.  Meanwhile the suits at
> Xerox said to the valuable work-force that had been at Palo Alto, "What da
> hell is this?!  This isn't good!  What can you even do with this, ya
> morons!?  It isn't worth anything!  It'll never actually go anywhere!
> Jezus!  What a waste!"  But secretly they said to themselves, "Ah well,
> maybe not a total loss.  We'll dump this pile of crap on Jobs at Apple.
> Can ya believe what he's willing to pay?  He he he, what a sucker!"
> 
It's true that Jobs lifted windowing technology from Xerox PARC, albeit
*not* without compensation to Xerox. It is also true that PARC lifted
some of the windows technology and the *mouse* from Doug Englebart, who
did a windowing demonstration in the 1960's.

Apple also *added* some concepts to the way that windowing worked, which
Micro$uck gleefully swiped *without* compensation.

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