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Apple took resizable overlapping windows from Xerox; in return, Xerox got shares in Apple. Not stole: bought, with stock. Then, on the Lisa, Apple invented fro
by lproven 4y ago
Apple took resizable overlapping windows from Xerox; in return, Xerox got shares in Apple. Not stole: bought, with stock.
Then, on the Lisa, Apple invented from scratch:
Standarised dialog boxes; a global menu bar; window title bars with global controls on them; standardised icons and functions and buttons (OK, Cancel, etc).
None of this stuff was in Xerox Smalltalk.
Xerox invented 3 things: overlapping resizable windows; an object-oriented programming language to create and manipulate them; ubiquitous networking to connect the machines.
Apple took the windows, missed the rest.
Source: Steve Jobs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHaTRWRj8G0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHaTRWRj8G0
But Apple invented most of the standard GUI controls that we all know and use today. They weren't in the original Xerox system at all.
- scroot 4y ago> Apple took resizable overlapping windows from Xerox; in return, Xerox got shares in Apple This is sort of backwards. Xerox already had taken a stake in Apple before any of the demonstrations (and, in part, this is why the demonstrations happened at all). It was the Lisa team that came for the second of the legendary demos, including the engineer -- formerly of the LRG team at PARC -- who would go on to invent the Finder.