Macintosh anniversary and oblique reference to X11

[Henry Spencer]

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Peter L. Peres wrote:
> ...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.

Nobody's ever claimed that anything about the *hardware* was new.  Even
the mouse was invented by neither Apple nor PARC.

> I wonder who came up with the name joystick. And why no-one censed it.

My dictionary says it probably came from, well, just what you'd think, and
seems to have been invented by early aviators -- a crude lot, it would
appear. :-)

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org

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