[quote=svelte][quote=Allan from Fallbrook]
Svelte: Jobs “stole it” from PARC? No, that isn’t true. Xerox (and Motorola) had developed quite a bit of the technology that went into the Apple systems (and later IBM systems), but were more than content to simply let it go, largely because it didn’t fit their “core competency” (in Xerox’s case, xerography).
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Ah. So Allan is an Apple Head!

So, you agree that the GUI concept used at Apple was not invented at Apple but at Xerox PARC?[/quote]

Svelte: No, not an Apple head at all (unless you count my iPod). Dedicated PC user from the jump.

And, yeah, I absolutely agree that the GUI, along with OOP, VLSI and Ethernet, were invented at PARC. In my opinion, Xerox blew it horribly. They had market-changing opportunities spitting out of there regularly and just let them go. Motorola did this, too, along with IBM (with PC-DOS and selling the rights to Gates for a song), but nothing on the scale of Xerox. The Xerox Alto was the system that Jobs was also access to (in exchange for Xerox buying Apple shares on the cheap) and the rest, as they say, is history.