From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@noos.fr>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Kernighan interview (w/ Plan 9 mention)
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 21:45:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <009b01c0183b$13f786e0$03c684c3@psychobasketcase.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <001701c01805$64125500$03c684c3@psychobasketcase.org>
From: Boyd Roberts <boyd@planete.net>
> From: Douglas A. Gwyn <gwyn@arl.army.mil>
> > (This reminds me of the Blit
> > marketing that could have competed with X11 but didn't.)
> >
>
> reminds me of PARC.
i thought i should qualify that last statement. [Xerox] PARC
invented the Alto [bitmapped display], ethernet and the laser
printer. this was ~1975. the alto had a mouse, but the mouse
was not invented at PARC.
my reference (rather than 'doing a boyd' or by force of argument):
Fumbling the Future
Douglas K. Smith and Robert C. Alexandre
ISBN: 0-688-06959-2
they even had a design on the board for a laser printer that
_could not be built_ because it was far in advance of the,
then, current technology.
steve jobs took a tour of PARC which turned into that abortion
known as the 'Mac'.
those who forget their history are doomed to repeat it...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-09-06 19:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-09-05 13:29 [9fans] " Leo Caves
2000-09-05 14:27 ` [9fans] " Conway Yee
2000-09-05 16:59 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-09-06 8:45 ` George Michaelson
2000-09-06 13:32 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-09-06 13:21 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-09-06 19:45 ` Boyd Roberts [this message]
2000-09-06 8:45 ` Christopher Browne
2000-09-06 10:35 ` Michael Jeffrey.
2000-09-06 13:43 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-09-06 13:09 bwc
2000-09-06 13:24 rob pike
2000-09-06 13:24 forsyth
2000-09-06 22:21 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-09-06 22:31 ` Boyd Roberts
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