Macintosh anniversary and oblique reference to X11

[Stephen A.]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 11:23:06PM +0200 or thereabouts, 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):

Which is true. Not too long ago, I had a conversation with Jeff Raskin,
the father of the original Mac GUI. He had worked at XeroxParc, but said
that as far as he was concerned, any similarities were much like the similarities
between a Ford and GM -- they both have wheels. Even the mice were different, 
as was the look of the GUI. He has a good article on his website. 

<http://humane.sourceforge.net/published/holes.html>

He's an intersting fella.


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