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Re: Wozniak vs Jobs

On 24 Mar 1998, Supertimer wrote:

> The Lisa WAS a beautifully engineered computer, but Jobs did not
> engineer it.  The most he did was outline a concept, but even that came
> from Palo Alto.  

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.

Greg B.

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