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Why must they have? Part of what distinguished the Mac GUI from PARC’s is the former’s refinement, elegance, and whimsy, contributed in large part by Kare.
by webwielder2 8y ago
Why must they have? Part of what distinguished the Mac GUI from PARC’s is the former’s refinement, elegance, and whimsy, contributed in large part by Kare.
- icebraining 8y agoYet they did, in the person of David Em: https://ohiostate.pressbooks.pub/graphicshistory/chapter/9-6-david-em/ https://ohiostate.pressbooks.pub/graphicshistory/chapter/9-6...
- cmacaskill 8y agoGood find. I wonder if Andy Hertzfeld said one of the first and I misquoted him.
- perl4ever 8y agoBecause any time you say some is "the first", you obviously looked at some sources to find who was the earliest one fitting some criteria. Relaxing the criteria and/or looking deeper is very likely to find someone else. But you can never win an argument either way, because the criteria are arbitrary. So many disputes boil down to definitions.
- brandonmenc 8y ago> Why must they have? Because PARC was an intentionally multi-disciplinary group working on the earliest incarnations of visual computing. Also, no one is disputing that Susan Kare is highly accomplished and hugely influential.