> From: geneb > I'm going to assume you're being sarcastic. :)
With a steam-shovel... :-) >> that whole display/windows/menu/mouse thing he copied from Xerox > Fixed that for ya. :) Well, technically, as you probably know, the mouse came from Engelbart (well, his group; I'm not sure who the individual was); and the display, I'm honestly not sure of. I know the Knight TV system at the AI Lab was a very early bit-mapped display, but I don't know where the idea first appeared. (There were of course influential earlier display systems, such as the one on SAGE, althoug those were of course all stroke-based systems, given the limited memory of the period.) Windows and menus are AFAIK from PARC, but maybe there are antecedents I don't know of. > Bah, he was an ego-driven trinket salesman. His trinkets quit being any > good after the IIgs. :) Now I'm not sure how serious _you_ are being! :-) As to the first, there is some truth to it, but like many (all) humans, he was complex... Noel