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  From: Richard Sharpe <sharpe@ns.aus.com>
  To  : Daryl Tester , linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
  Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 21:48:20 +0900

Re: More space required

At 10:54 PM 6/29/00 +0930, Daryl Tester wrote:
>David Newall wrote:
>> There is no question that the Lisa had an operating system which was ten
>> years (or more) in advance of the IBM PC.
>
>And then some - most of the Lisa's design was ripped off of Xerox PARC
>workstations of the time (the name of which escapes me), which had been

The Alto, if my memory is not faulty. It was really cool, and had virtual
machines in microcode :-)

>around since the late 70's (which is why it was so ironic when Apple
>sued Microsoft over WIMP interfaces, when they themselves had stolen it).
>The stuff that Xerox produced was amazing, even more so when they failed
>to capitalise on it (consider: WIMP interface, SmallTalk (an OO language
>in common use in the 70's!), Ethernet & networking).
>
>
>Regards,
>  Daryl Tester
>
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Regards
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