Xerox Parc

From: Curt Vendel <curt_at_atarimuseum.com>
Date: Thu Nov 7 19:55:10 2002

I Agree, I never thought it fair the whole Apple-DRI lawsuit seeing as GEM
was already being shown in late 83' and the fact that as you stated, the
Finder (actually going farther back, the Lisa Office) were right from
examination of the Xerox GUI, Win 1.0 was a total joke and Win 2.0 was still
a giggle and yes, its strange how Atari's TOS (CP/M68 & GEM) was left alone.


Curt

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lawrence Walker" <lgwalker_at_mts.net>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 9:40 PM
Subject: Xerox Parc


> 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
>
> lgwalker_at_mts.net
> bigwalk_ca_at_yahoo.com
>
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