Re: Jobs returns to Apple

[Patrick Roy Anthony <panthony@hookup.net>]

Sheldon Simms wrote:
> 
> In article <32BF4B49.2B91@hookup.net>, panthony@hookup.net wrote:
> 
> > J. L. Walters wrote:
> > >
> > > As to his creation of the Mac, I'd have to agree that he was the
> > > driving force behind it, but not the inventor of as in the same sense
> > > as Woz was of the Apple ][.
> >
> > The 'Lisa' was Job's baby... The Mac was someone elses
> > idea to replace the Lisa. Steve HATED the Mac idea from
> > day one (apparently had tantrums about it) but gradually
> > learned to like the machine... like alot of people have.
> 
> That's not quite true. Yes, the Lisa was Jobs' project while the
> Macintosh was originally a separate project. At that time the
> Macintosh concept was very different from the Lisa. It was more
> along the lines of Opendoc software today.
> 
> While the Lisa was under development, apparently Jobs ordered a
> change, I believe it was to change to square pixels, Anyway the
> engineers refused because the project was too far along and Jobs
> got angry and bailed. He instead went and took over the Macintosh
> project, which was little more than conceptualizing as the time,
> and transformed it into what he thought the Lisa should have been.
> Jobs was deeply involved with the design and production of the Mac
> that appeared in 1984, not as an engineer, but as a tyrannical
> perfectionist who insisted that the Mac be everything he wanted it
> to be, often at the expense of common sense.
> 
> -Sheldon

Thanks for the clarification Sheldon  ;^)

Roy C. Anthony
AMIGA/Mac jedi?

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> W. Sheldon Simms III - sheldon@atlcom.net

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