Re: Pirates of Silicon Valley

[gwangung@u.washington.edu (R. Tang)]

In article <3779DE35.469826EE@rocknet.net.au>,
Mike  <moose@rocknet.net.au> wrote:
>Mike Pike wrote:
>
>> That's not entirely true.... apple had started their own GUI at the same
>> time, if not before Xerox.... they simply used Xerox to show Jobs what it
>> was capable of doing - or so I am told...
>
>Where do you get this from ?

	Bruce Horn and Jeff Rashkin, two of the engineers.

>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.

	This is not true.

>Suggesting that Apple engineers / programmers were already working on a GUI
>*before* Xerox started working on theirs is simply utter bullshit. 

	It is the truth.

 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.

	Not true at all. Elements were at SRI and in masters thesis in the
late 1960s.

>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 !

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