On Wednesday, January 24, 2024 at 02:16:44 PM PST, Sellam Abraham via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
[...] > But basically, Jobs never stole anything. He was pretty much invited to > take a look, and then entered into some sort of exclusivity deal (I may be > wrong about this detail) to use Xerox tech. Xerox upper execs didn't see a > market in this kind of hardware; copiers were their game, so they didn't > get what they had, and didn't care. If anything, Apple should be thanked > for taking what would have been deadend technology at Xerox and making a > product with it. Basically. Not exactly. Xerox *did* have products based on the D-machines (DandeLion, DandeTiger, etc). They were a commercial failure. Allegedly (from a Lisp-machine user at the time) at least in part because the Xerox sales force only knew how to sell devices that had a toner hooper. Wikipedia on the Daybreak (last D*-machine) says they were used extensively withi Xerox until replaced by PCs r Sun workstations.
