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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: i-node who wrote (544765)1/18/2010 10:33:11 PM
From: bentway1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) of 1574470
 
He can't answer the first question, but I can. It was the Xerox "Star" system, that had a mouse and a GUI (in 1981!), but cost $20,000!

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Jobs stole the GUI and the mouse, but didn't really the steal the OS, which was object oriented and Smalltalk based. I wish he had! It was light-years ahead of what Apple put behind the glass.
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