Re: Wozniak vs Jobs

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Greg J. Buchner (buchner@freenet.msp.mn.us) wrote:

: 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.
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