J.R. The Xerox machine was based on DOS, and had a GUI, mouse etc, but not windows, but it had pulldowns and other Apple attributes. I am trying to remember the name of it.
Well Xerox marketing was absolutely hopeless. They told engineering to differentiate the machine(make it proprietary), and they did, and it flopped as it was a departure from the emerging IBM standard.
I will ask Tom if he some old catalogs in his Santa Ana warehouse to refresh my memories.Those machines existed and were sold, slow though.
The complications were that both Apple and MSFT had licensed from Xerox at different times. Then MSFT had also licensed from Apple, and Apple tried to say that was not what we licensed, and it came out that it all came from Xerox in the first place(Yes all there, if only Xerox had some brains to use what PARC had wrought)
But we have all seen xerox crash and burn many times.
Bill |
