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Re: Wozniak vs Jobs
- Subject: Re: Wozniak vs Jobs
- From: regnirps@aol.com (Regnirps)
- Date: 1998/03/25
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com
- References: <6fbkpr$sba$1@opal.southwind.net>
>shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)
>Date: Wed, Mar 25, 1998 14:09 EST
>Message-id: <6fbkpr$sba$1@opal.southwind.net>
>
>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
Yes, and it was in 1967!