Xerox Parc

From: Lawrence Walker <lgwalker_at_mts.net>
Date: Mon Nov 4 20:48:10 2002

 Something that I have always wondered about is why Xerox never sued
Jobs ass off for the Mac GUI and also MSWindows which was derrived from
Xerox's 'Small-Talk". They were a major corporation and Apple was quick
enough to disembowel DRI's GEM altho Sam's Atari ST still continued to use
an updated version of the original. MS has also litigated any threat to their
bullying dominance and despite the protestations of the C-64 fans GEOS
(any coincidence there) is obviously a clone of the GEM desktop. The mouse
was also developed at Palo Alto. I have trouble simply accepting that a major
corporation like XEROX was simply a stupid wimp. From all evidence I've
seen Xerox invented the GUI. Something more important than CP/M,
MSDOS, or UNIX. What am I missing here.

Lawrence

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