> On Nov 17, 2016, at 2:20 PM, Rich Alderson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> ...
> I think arguing "priority" is a pointless exercise. In the real world, the
> mouse came to the fore with the Xerox Alto, where its use was inspired by
> Engelbart, not Telefunken, and it spread to Lisp Machines, Lisa and Macintosh
> computers, and beyond, from there.
That's a good point for history of inventions generally. Take printing; it was
arguably invented in China first, but independently in Germany later. The
later one is the one that took hold world-wide. For that matter, writing;
invented independently in at least three if not four places, but out of those
only two produced offspring that spread and flourished.
paul
