Brian King wrote:
>
> Thanks, very interesting! The guy who thought up the concept of GUI - Vannevar
> Bush - also wrote an article called "As we may think" (or sth similar) in which
> he set out the idea of "hypertext".
>
> Really ahead of his time...
>
> Brian
>
> Nickolas Koehne wrote:
>
> > If you guys wanna know how PARC Engineers built the Xerox Alto, how Steve
> > Jobs "acquired" the design, and how microsoft stole it...
> >
> > http://www.applemuseum.seastar.net/sections/gui.html
> >
> > There's everything you want to know about how the GUI was born. Including
> > it's conception in 1945.
> >
> > -Darkeyes
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Romanator" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2000 6:38 PM
> > Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux resources online
> >
> > >
> > > Adrian Smith wrote:
> > > >
> > > > actually, i think (could be wrong) that it was xerox that was going to
> > sue apple, they came up with the GUI first. i also think that Apple did
> > actually get it in a court, the it was ruled that the GUI was not something
> > they could claim as their own.
> > > >
> > > > >Romanator wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >> Let's take it a little further. Windows isn't original. Isn't it a
> > > > >> derivative?
> > > >
> > > > A nice little thing I once read in a book (don't recall the title, I
> > read
> > > > too much :) is that at one time Apple wanted to sue Microsoft for
> > copying
> > > > the idea of the mouse-driven graphical interface.
> > > >
> > > > Then, from Palo Alto, Kodak (!!) came up and threatened to sue Apple for
> > > > the same thing if they were going on with that. Old film and paper
> > > > documents showed that Kodak had been experimenting with mouses etc.
> > > > already long before Apple got the idea.
> > > >
> > > > (Could be that I am completely wrong with Kodak as the company, but that
> > > > is how I remember it.)
> > > >
> > > > Paul
> > > >
> > > > Adrian Smith
> > > > 'de telepone dude
> > > > Telecom Dept.
> > > > x 7042
> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > > If they're not suing each other, the are either merging or buying off
> > > small bits of their
> > > offshoot companies. Hmhh... Makes you think. (he-he)
> > > --
> > > Roman
> > > Registered Linux User #179293
> > >
Just think of what is still in the making. Very interesting.
Don't you just love it?
--
Roman
Registered Linux User #179293
