Re: Pirates of Silicon Valley

["Greg J. Buchner" <buchner@tcfreenet.org>]

On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Mike wrote:

> Where do you get this from ?
> 
> According to the words from Steve Jobs and Woz's own mouths - they were
> absolutely *blown* away when they saw Xerox's GUI, and they dragged half of
> the Apple engineers down to PARC soon after to see a GUI for the **first**
> time.
> 
> Suggesting that Apple engineers / programmers were already working on a GUI
> *before* Xerox started working on theirs is simply utter bullshit.  According
> to Cringeley's book and other books I have read, Xerox had the Alto built and
> the GUI developed *before* Apple was even formed.
> 
> Suggesting that Apple engineers / programmers were already working on a GUI
> before Jobs became aware of the Xerox GUI is also simply utter bullshit.
> 
> Get your facts straight !
> 
> Mike O'Malley

Well, check out Cringley's Q&A on PBS at:
<http://www.pbs.org/nerds/qa4.html>
and go down and read Jef Raskin's take on it...this from someone who was
working there at the time.

They may have not have had a working project and there likely wasn't many
people working on it, so yes, they would have been blown away going to
Xerox PARC to look at a working GUI.

Jef Raskin also did his graduate paper on a GUI in 1969.

Greg B.

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