On Sunday, 6 May 2012 at 14:41:19 +1000, Russell Coker wrote:
On Sun, 6 May 2012, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@lemis.com> wrote:
"hippy" aspect was a little overdone, I think, but the documentary gave me a historical perspective that I had lost. They pretended that Apple invented the mouse, but that was about the worst.
They gave credit to Xerox PARC, but credited Apple as being the first to rip off Xerox. That seems to correlate well with all other accounts.
It doesn't match my memory, nor the descriptions and illustrations of early mice (mouses?) in Wikipedia. Other aspects of the Lisa and Macintosh were more clearly derived from the PARC work. Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer Finger grog@FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft MUA reports problems, please read http://tinyurl.com/broken-mua