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To: jlallen who wrote (63064)	11/15/1999 11:17:00 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

That is what I thought. I understood you, at the time, but was preoccupied with some arguments on Lions, and figured the matter would come clear eventually. Unfortunately, it appears that I should have jumped in to help clarify at the time.....Sorry to be a little late....

To: jlallen who wrote (63064)	11/15/1999 11:41:00 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 108807

It does strike me as odd that you insist on analyzing the content of a conversation you never heard. You have no real way of knowing what either Thurow OR Kemp said. I doubt that Thurow argued that ALL of Apple's success came from the GUI idea jobs got when touring Xerox Park. But it's "well-known" that the big thing that made Apple was the GUI (graphical user interface) which Jobs cribbed from the research of others. Here is one example of how the anecdote has entered into the vernacular: senate.gov Many business stories illustrate the power that entrepreneurs exert in the new economy. In 1979, Steve Jobs toured a Xerox research facility and saw a computer with an experimental graphical user interface (GUI) - forerunner to today's Windows computer screen. Xerox had no big plans for the GUI, thus leaving the path open for Jobs to implement his vision with the revolutionary Apple Macintosh in the 1980s. Today, most of world's 360 million or so PC users turn on their computers to find a user-friendly interface descended from Apple's original innovation.