"Hot, dead chicken"...I think you've got something there. It's probably
marketable...You'll make a fortune..
Chet
On 7/12/01 6:33 PM, "Gary Moody" <gmoody_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yep, the very first OOP language, developed at the Xerox Palo Alto Research
> Center (PARC), as was the concept of the GUI based on an OOP OS, the
> enthernet network, the notebook and PDA computer, the "mouse", and most of
> what we readily accept as the standard computing paradigm today. At the
> time, of the top 100 computer scientists in the world at the time, 98 of
> them were at the PARC. Xerox implemented most of this on the Xerox
> Star-class machines in the late '70s. Never heard of it? It's because the
> Xerox marketing machine was/is so inept that, if Xerox had purchased
> Kentucky Fried Chicken, they would have marketed the product as "Hot, Dead
> Chicken". It was the Xerox demo of the Star to Jobs that inspired the Lisa.
>
> Regards,
>
> Gary
>
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: "Laurent Daudelin" <laurent_daudelin_at_fanniemae.com>
> To: newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net
> Subject: Re: [NTLK] Small Talk
> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 12:12:15 -0400
>
> It's also the mother of all object-oriented programming languages.
>
> -Laurent.
>
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