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The Birth of the Apple Lisa

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the helluva-contraction-you-got-here dept.

Ton writes "People think Apple stole the GUI from Xerox, but it's much more subtle than that. Braeburn has posted a story about the development and birth of the Apple Lisa, the first commercial computer with a graphical interface. More on this subject at Andy Hertzfeld's (one of the original developers of the Mac) site Folkore.org."

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  1. Xerox? by FudRucker · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Does Xerox build an Operating System for X86 or PPC? i did not see one offered at Xerox's website, i did notice the name of Novell on their website so they probably use Novell/SuSE, seems ok to me but i was just wondering why Xerox has not built a Linux distro of their own or a different OS all together, or are they just interested in copiers & printers.

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