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

[jdwong@nlsgi6.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Jim Wong)]

mpearce@crl.com (Matthew Pearce) writes:

>Tony Cianfaglione (tony@ccn.cs.dal.ca) wrote:
>:    How can you have a 20th anniversary Mac when Macs didn't come out 
>: until 1984?  

>Apple doesn't give a rat's tail (nor the part of the rat the tail is 
>attached to) about the truth, or historical reality.

This is a little harsh.  The new Mac commemorates the Apple's 20th
birthday.  Nothing more.

>Some of the common lies :

>Apple created the GUI (Jobs stole the idea from Xerox)

"Stole" is not the term I'd use here.  Apple's GUI is based on earlier
work at Xerox, but the implementations are vastly different.
-- 
Jim Wong (jd-wong@uiuc.edu)