> On Nov 17, 2016, at 2:20 PM, Rich Alderson <ri...@livingcomputers.org> wrote: > > ... > I think arguing "priority" is a pointless exercise. In the real world, the > mouse came to the fore with the Xerox Alto, where its use was inspired by > Engelbart, not Telefunken, and it spread to Lisp Machines, Lisa and Macintosh > computers, and beyond, from there.
That's a good point for history of inventions generally. Take printing; it was arguably invented in China first, but independently in Germany later. The later one is the one that took hold world-wide. For that matter, writing; invented independently in at least three if not four places, but out of those only two produced offspring that spread and flourished. paul