Macintosh anniversary and oblique reference to X11

[Peter L. Peres]

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 11:23:06PM +0200, Peter L. Peres wrote:
> > An article in a French newspaper about the birth of the Macintosh, by its
> > 'father' (no it was not Steve Jobs ?), with references to the fact that
> > the Mac UI was not a clone of anything done at Xerox PARC. I find it very
> > interesting (in French):
> >
> > http://www.liberation.com/page.php?Article=172907
>
> Well I don't think anyone claims the Mac UI was a clone of the xerox
> parc stuff, just that the concept was borrowed from xerox parc's work.

Actually the article claims it wasn't, and it's probably true. There is a
referenec to a book about user interfaces. Trackballs and joysticks were
not invented at PARC, they had been in use in various (mechanical) forms
in drafting and scientific equipment for half a century or more. I wonder
who came up with the name joystick. And why no-one censed it.

Peter
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml