> --On Saturday, November 16, 2002 12.19 -0800 Martin Joseph wrote:
>> Xerox get a lot of credit however, as they did incorporate all the
>> element together (ie mouse, windows, GUI), although the Alto was not a
>> PC. Xerox furthermore get credit because it was there Steve Jobs saw
>> the technology (at PARC) and from there he stole the concept and many
>> of the team members for the original LISA and eventually the Macintosh.
Careful with the term 'stole' here. Xerox received a hefty chunk of
early Apple stock that made them a pretty penny.
I'd say that SJ /bought/ the technology, supposed overlapping windows
and all.
...Ross...
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