You make a good point, Chuck. Xerox sold a number of STAR systems to
government agencies, and it was a nice system for sharing documents over an
Ethernet system. After that, they just seemed to give up on computer
systems.
My first computer at work was a Xerox computer, model long forgotten. It
used the CP/M operating system, and had two 8-inch floppy disk drives.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 7:35 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] Image Editing System
> 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.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 6/11/2013 11:40 AM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
>> If this sounds like a pro-Mac screed, it is. I love my Mac, I will
>> not switch back to Windows for any reason or any price. If I found I
>> couldn't work with Mac anymore, I simply would drop out of the
>> electronic world. Nothing,_nothing_ would send me back to that cyber
>> hell we call Windows, which, after all, is nothing but an effing Mac
>> ripoff in the first place. And why use an inferior ripoff instead of
>> the real thing? Eh?
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