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Article #62Re: The "Macintoy" chant is getting tired
From: Sean Brunnock
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1989 14:09
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1989 14:09
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From article <4627@ficc.uu.net>, by peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva): > In article <41604@bbn.COM>, mesard@bbn.com (Wayne Mesard) writes: >> 3) The Mac solved the user interface problem. It didn't perfect it. > > The Xerox Star solved the user interface problem. The Mac took this > solution and tried to cram it into a 128K box. Alan Kay (working at Xerox) solved the user interface problem. His machine was the Dynabook which was available as early as 1973. The Xerox Star was introduced about a year after the Mac. It is a shame that people thought $10,000 was too high a price to to pay for a state of the art machine (the Lisa). Sean Brunnock
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ulowell!sbrunnoc@hawk.ulowell.edu From: sbrunnoc@hawk.ulowell.edu (Sean Brunnock) Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc Subject: Re: The "Macintoy" chant is getting tired Message-ID: <13929@swan.ulowell.edu> Date: 22 Jun 89 14:09:49 GMT References: <4627@ficc.uu.net> Sender: news@swan.ulowell.edu Lines: 16