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Re:Restoring YC's Xerox Alto: how our boot disk was trashed ... by mayank10j on Thursday September 15, 2016 @01:51PM (#12508235)
This doesn't mean Macintosh wasn't inspired by Xerox , even if they started work with Macintosh and Lisa there's is big chance getting first hand look at Xerox they have changed their approach drastically. Even if Android was in development before iphone debute they got drastic inspiration from iphone UI.
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Re:Restoring YC's Xerox Alto: how our boot disk was trashed ... by dalke on Thursday September 15, 2016 @05:00PM (#12509778)
I didn't say otherwise. It's absolutely clear that ideas in Macintosh were inspired by PARC, just like ideas at PARC were inspired by SRI.

My complaint is about the assertion that "[Jobs] was inspired to base the user interfaces of the Lisa and Macintosh systems on Xerox's ideas", when the inspiration came before that visit, and was not due to Jobs.

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