Re: [NTLK] Microsoft Tablet PC's designer

From: Willytmailboy_at_aol.com
Date: Sat Nov 16 2002 - 11:57:20 EST


In a message dated 11/16/2002 4:27:53 PM GMT Standard Time,
daedalus1_at_telocity.com writes:

> and in particular one fellow who worked at SRI named Doug Engelbart.
> Engelbart and his team invented the mouse, hyperlinking, on-screen editing,
> videoconferencing, and more. There's the real smart guy.
 he may have invented the 'mouse', but he copied the idea, from the
trackball, which was invented by two engineers, working on RADAR
"Two engineers came up with a trackball, the innards of the mouse, a full 11
years before Englebart unveiled his device. Moreover, it was used to select a
position on a screen to convey information to a processor, which is the
fundamental operation of a GUI. One of the engineers, 80-year-old Tom
Cranston, is still alive and living in Scotland"

so it seems everyone copied everyone else

  Mike

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