Re: Pirates of Silicon Valley

[ChemSleuth@earthlink.net (Dennis Doms)]

In article <37782c84.4741057@news.earthlink.net>,
ChemSleuth@earthlink.net (Dennis Doms) wrote:

>In article <MPG.11e07f8c7651a84e98968c@news.mciworld.com>,
>bwit@pobox.com (Bob Withers) wrote:
>
[snip of previous quoted message]
>>Raskin had friends who worked at PARC and had seen demos of the things 
>>they were working on before the offical Apple visit.  I don't believe he 
>>ever worked there himself.
>>
>>Bob
>>
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>>Bob Withers               Do or do not, there is no try
>>bwit@pobox.com                                  Yoda
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>
>I'd accept that at this point. Malone refers to him being at SAIL and
>apparently spending time while there also visiting Xerox, but I can't
>find a reference to him actually working at Xerox. (I thought I had
>heard years ago that he did, but I'll assume I misremembered unless I
>find something concrete.)
>
>That doesn't change the core argument: some knowledge of the Xerox GUI
>work was apparently known to Raskin before the Mac project.
>
> --
>Dennis Doms  ChemSleuth@earthlink.net  http://home.earthlink.net/~chemsleuth
>"If Bill Clinton, Kenneth Starr, Linda Tripp, and Monica Lewinsky all worked
>              on car lots, I would buy my car from Monica."
>            -- Brian Clarke, "Letters", _Time_, April 5, 1999
>

Just to follow (after a trip to the bookshelf), a passage from
_Programmers At Work_, in the response by Jef Raskin to an
interviewer's question (p. 229):

"When I was a visiting scholar at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory in the early seventies, I spent a lot of time at Xerox's
Palo Alto Research Center. I thought the work Xerox PARC was doing
with bit-mapped screens, generalized keyboards, and graphics was
wonderful. So I lobbied hard and got Apple to change Lisa to a bit-map
machine."

 --
Dennis Doms  ChemSleuth@earthlink.net  http://home.earthlink.net/~chemsleuth
"If Bill Clinton, Kenneth Starr, Linda Tripp, and Monica Lewinsky all worked
              on car lots, I would buy my car from Monica."
            -- Brian Clarke, "Letters", _Time_, April 5, 1999