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David Connors (dconnors@gil.ipswichcity.qld.gov.au) wrote:
[snipt]
: Something could be said of Commodores lack of respect to Apple for
: taking the GUI idea, and in turn, Apple's lack of respect to Xerox's
: PARC project.


According to Jef Raskin, in a Letter to the Editor of ACM SIGCHI, those 
portions of the Mac's GUI that were taken from XEROX were licensed from 
XEROX.


According to Raskin, in an article in ACM Interactions, the Mac project 
had been proposed in early 1979, even before the Lisa project, and was 
approved in September of 1979, several months before Jobs went to XEROX PARC.
The Mac project was started to fulfill Raskin's late 1960's vision of a more
human-centered computer and the initial 1979 design had bitmapped 
graphics, a pointing device, and WYSIWYG-esque printing.

According to Raskin, in personal e-mail, Jobs was fighting the Mac 
project tooth-and-nail, calling it the stupidest thing that he'd ever 
heard of, and Raskin directed him to PARC so that he could see what a 
working system based on the principles found in the Mac project, could be 
like.

Jobs visited PARC in December of 1979, after Raskin had given him and 
Atkinson extensive briefing on what they would probably see (Raskin had 
visited PARC 6-7 years earlier, just after it opened), and what to look 
for while they were there.

The PARC folks were all impressed with these wonder kids who could walk 
into a building and comprehend the design-issues and implications of 
human-centered computing "at first glance" far better than anyone that 
they'd ever met before. Because of the obvious genius of Steve Jobs, 
many PARC workers eventually went to work for him at Apple.


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