Re: Jobs returns to Apple

[sheldon@atlcom.net (Sheldon Simms)]

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

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