On Tue, 14 Mar 2017, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote:
> From: geneb
>> When people decided Steve Jobs had become a god?
> Right about the time that whole "computer for the rest of us" started...
Yes, of course: nobody had thought of a cheap personal computer before him.
I'm going to assume you're being sarcastic. :)
Although I suppose you might have been talking about the software. I mean,
without that whole display/windows/menu/mouse thing he copied from
Xerox, to allow ordinary people to use a computer, where would we be?
Fixed that for ya. :)
Look, I fully admit that Steve Jobs was a _very_ sharp person who had a
_tremendous_ influence.
Bah, he was an ego-driven trinket salesman. His trinkets quit being any
good after the IIgs. :)
g.
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