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Re: Wozniak vs Jobs



> : Apple was already working on the GUI and the Lisa when they were invited
> : to Xerox's Palo Alto site to look around.  Apple had someone working for
> : them who had done a term paper on a GUI.  What they got out of Pal Alto
> : was just a better idea of how to implement some things.
>
> That's correct, Jef Raskin wrote his PhD thesis on a GUI system named, of
> all things, Quickdraw. That happened before any visit to Xerox. I have an
> article with the details somewhere.

Yes, but it was the visit to PARC that got the stone rolling.
Do you know who invented the IC?
But do you know who got the credits?

Ole