I'm sure that you're right, Chuck, but I seem to remember that DR (Digital . .
.) was the originator of the WIMP environment. It's certainly what my Atari
mags were telling me in the late 80s when I was using an Atari ST bought at
MacDill AFB BX ($600 with colour monitor).
Chris
On 12 Jun 2013, at 13:35, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> You're perfectly welcome to keep your Mac but you should not call
> Windows a Mac ripoff. Both are a ripoff of the Xerox Alto created by
> Xerox PARC. But it's good that Jobs and Gates came along and took what
> they did. Xerox hadn't a clue about the value of what they had. The
> Alto would still be languishing in the lab.
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