on 9/25/03 4:53 AM, iMac List at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Apple may have pioneered windows (after hiring scientists from PARC), > but it should be known they didn't invent the interface paradigm. That > was Xerox PARC. The computer was the Star. This is also the origin of > ethernet, the mouse, the programming language Smalltalk, and the laser > printer.
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