"Erik" wrote:
>> I think you could blame the Mac for all this GUI
>> stuff, cause really it came out there first with
>> the plain Mac in 1984. This was around the same
>> time Microsoft started their Windows project.
> The Mac was hardly the first GUI. Xerox had the
> Alto and it's family running at PARC and beyond
> several years before Apple came out with the
> Lisa. The Lisa pre-dated the Mac by over a year
> . . .
NO!! I didn't mean the Mac was the first computer
with GUI!! I mean't it was the first computer to be
competive with the IBM, sure Lisa came a year
before that, but with a $10,000 price tag & no
colour could hardly be called a threat to the IBMs!
Sure Mac didn't have colour either, but was much
more affordable, which is why I believe it was more
of a threat!
And please don't tell me about Steve Jobs visit to
Xerox, because I seemed to have been told it a
many times! ;-)
Cheers,
CP/M User.