Ed Jay <edMbj@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Big Bill scribed:
>
>>>...it copied the graphical interface of the Mac to develop
>>>Windows.
>>>And it went on by suing anyone who tried to use ****tions of the code
>>>they had themselves stolen.
>>
>>Stolen? I think they were allowed to take it, actually, from Xerox.
>>
> Hewlett-Packard. The language the GUI interface is built on was
> 'Smalltalk," proprietary to HP.
"Smalltalk was the product of research by a group of researchers led by
Alan Kay at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC); Alan Kay designed most
of the early Smalltalk versions, which Dan Ingalls implemented."
"Smalltalk-80 was the first language variant made available outside of
PARC, first as Smalltalk-80 Version 1, given to a small number of
companies (Hewlett-Packard, Apple Computer, Tektronix, and DEC)"
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk
Oh, and if Wikipedia is wrong, instead of a long rant on how Wikipedia
sucks and can't be trusted, feel free to edit that page (thanks).
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John Bokma http://johnbokma.com/
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