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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. People think... by PsiPsiStar · · Score: 4, Funny

    The RIAA thinks that I stole music using Kazaa, but it's much more subtle than that...

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  2. Re:You Can't Do That On Television by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    I don't know!


    (ducks)

  3. I call BS by Gilmoure · · Score: 2, Funny

    Apple never paid Xerox or did some kind of stock deal or hired a bunch of their disgruntled engineers when Xerox was too dim-bulbed to take advantage of their work. Apple used stealth Morris-Dancer Monkey Ninjas, who snuck in and took pictures of screens. Apple then went and used high powered scanners to read the computer code behind the screen shots.

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