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To: Dirk Dawson who wrote (8445)	2/12/1998 3:20:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (3) of 213177

Dirk; It was a successor to the Alto that Xerox tried to sell, however it was so proprietary that you had to buy modified programs from Xerox to make it work. I rememeber the history and Seattle computers dumbfool screwup(do you know they had upgrade rights to DOS and successor programs and they could have built Seattl into a huge corporatio, they were restricted to selling with a system but they had a license to make DOS and any successor window product, history now) Some of his comments are a bit revisionist, as they differ from my memory, He is right about Jobs(told you so). I suppose if I took the time I could write a version of the history, but his is mostly correct. Apple did not steal anything, and I never said they did, I just correctly attributed MAC and windows to the PARC roots. Bill

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