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Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> wrote:

:marke@nwlink.com (Mark Eaton) wrote
:] > QuickTime is from SGI.
:] 
:] Oh yeah? Where did you hear that?
:
:www.sgi.com

Apple Invented Quicktime.  Period.

:] > PlainTalk is fluff.
:] 
:] IYHO
:
:Yes, IMO.  You couldn't tell by the stunningly precise adjective
:("fluff") the it was opinion?

I'll admit I'm not too excited about quicktime.

:[ ... ]
:
:] Well, you said the word yourself: clones [of existing tehnology].
:] If the argument is new technology, clones of existing technology
:] are irrelavent.


:Apple did not invent the GUI.  They cloned it.

Apple did not clone it.  They bought the (desktop?) rights to produce
anything they saw relating to GUI at PARC (via stock options).  They them
proceeded to *make it work well*.  They did not invent it -- but they did
make significant useability improvements to a good idea.  PARC and
Macintosh are different, but related, beasties.

: Apple did not invent memory protection in Copeland.  They cloned it.
: Apple did not invent preemptive multitasking in Copeland.  They
: clone it.
: Apple did not invent cooperative multitasking in Multifinder.  They
: cloned it.

Agreed they did not invented these items.  Unsure about the phrase
"cloned" -- it implies a kine-by-line copying, which is just about the
farthest thing from what Apple does.  Apple does not invent everything, by
any means -- but they do do something more earth-shattering:

They make new technology work for ordinary people.

Now that's a big deal.

-Eric S.



What is your point?


                                        Terry Lambert
                                        terry@cs.weber.edu
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