on 12/23/01 6:02 PM, Brian Pearce at bpearce_at_cloud9.net wrote:
> I've read that these concepts that were supposedly discovered (as the story
> goes) by Steve Jobs at Xeros PARC and were brought to Lisa (and later to the
> Macintosh) were *already* in various stages of development at Apple; bringing
> Steve Jobs to see them in action at PARC was a way for the development teams
> to sell him on using them. (Other Apple employees had toured the PARC
> facilities and seen demonstrations of the technologies there long before Steve
> Jobs was brought along.)
It wasn't just Steve Jobs. Was it Steve Caps that used to work at PARC, who
was working at Apple? I know there was at least one ex-Xerox empoloyee at
Apple. They were attempting to build upon their ideas from Xerox, that
weren't appreciated there, but were appreciated at Apple. :-)
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