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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!

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To: jlallen who wrote (63100)	11/15/1999 2:11:00 PM
From: Edwarda	Read Replies (5) of 108807

Whoa! First of all, it's not IBM; it's Xerox PARC. Let's not confuse the issue. Secondly, he did more than see: One of the PARC scientists put the Alto through its paces for him in detail and he could see what they had been doing with bit-mapped video displays, mice, and graphical user interfaces. What he described as "his" vision for the Lisa (and the Macintosh) was what he had been shown in detail, minus the networking capabilities. Moreover, he did not get to head the development team for the Lisa; John Couch from Hewlett did. What's getting lost here is that Apple benefited from exploiting an idea invented elsewhere, that before that visit Jobs had not conceived of such a thing and that it turned the future of his own company around and made it the Apple we know today. Kemp's outburst was ignorant of the history and in bad form.

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