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Re: Computing Editorial (please read)

Subject: Re: Computing Editorial (please read)
From: Tim Mann <usenet@tim-mann.org>
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 19:48:53 GMT
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On 18 Jan 2003 22:43:07 -0800, pap3@dana.ucc.nau.edu (Paul Allen Panks)
wrote:
> I appreciate your comments. Yes, Bill Gates ripped off his Windows
> idea from Apple's Macintosh (also, the Apple Lisa), but then again
> Apple saw what Xerox PARC was doing with...well, I forget the name of
> the machine...but it had a bitmapped display and used a primitive
> mouse (not as primitive as the one created in the 1960's, of course).

The mice on the Xerox PARC Alto were not that primitive.  They worked
better than a lot of the other mice I used in later years.

-- 
Tim Mann  usenet@tim-mann.org  http://www.tim-mann.org/

References:
- Computing Editorial (please read)
  - From: pap3@dana.ucc.nau.edu (Paul Allen Panks)
- Re: Computing Editorial (please read)
  - From: Charles Richmond <richmond@ev1.net>
- Re: Computing Editorial (please read)
  - From: pap3@dana.ucc.nau.edu (Paul Allen Panks)

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