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Re: Apple II GS Questions

Subject: Re: Apple II GS Questions
From: Randy Shackelford <shack@onyx.southwind.net>
Date: 1998/11/01
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Organization: SouthWind Internet Access, Inc.
References: <363f7737.3413524@news.supernews.com> <19981101131042.19779.00002316@ng-fa2.aol.com>
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Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:

: Yes, Apple had a "windowing" GUI before Microsoft.  Why
: do you think everyone says Microsoft is a copycat?  But
: Apple did not invent it either.  The folks at Xerox Palo Alto
: did.  Apple was simply the first big computer maker that built
: one.

Xerox's work was predated by Jef Raskin's 1967 PhD thesis about a graphical
environment called "quickdraw". Raskin is considered the father of the Mac.
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References:
- Apple II GS Questions
  - From: rrhuehn@net.compu (Bob)
- Re: Apple II GS Questions
  - From: supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)

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