Re: Apple's GUI (Was: Re: Limited Edition GS's (Was: Re: Old v. late IIc)

[skaratso@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Stavros Robert Karatsoridis)]

Mike LaMorte (mlamorte@freenet.columbus.oh.us) wrote:
: Richard (KILPATRICK@Tank.CYBERphile.co.uk) wrote:

: I dunno where you got that idea. Apple didn't pay anything. At the time
: Jobs wanted to use some of the technologies, APple hadn't made it's
: initial public offering of its stock. They made an agreement with Xerox
: that Xerox could purchase 5% of the shares, but never own more than that.
: When Apple went public, Xerox's investment was worth something like 11
: million. The Mac Bathroom Reader isn't right next to me, so I'm not
: certain on the numbers, but I'm positive as to the couse of events.

: Besides, one of Apple's developers (I forget his name) came up with the
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: whole concept of a GUI in his Penn State masters thesis in 1967. He also
: coined the term Quickdraw.
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: -- 
: Mike LaMorte <mlamorte@freenet.columbus.oh.us>

That developer wouldn't happen to be Bill Atkinson (the father of
QuickDraw and HyperCard), would it?

Stavros