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Re:Restoring YC's Xerox Alto: how our boot disk was trashed ... by dalke on Thursday September 15, 2016 @07:45PM (#12510803)
I have read through folklore.org but I never noticed that change in UI from 1979 to 1980. Thank you for pointing that out.

Now that I am paying attention to that, I see in Jan. 1980 Raskin wrote "A lightpen for graphic input is being considered" for the Macintosh. http://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/sites/mac/primary/docs/bom/... .

In the link you pointed to shows that by summer of '80 there was no longer support for softkeys and there was support for a mouse. The primary documents at http://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/sites/mac/mouse0.html only start talking about a Macintosh mouse in spring of '80.

This fits well with a transition from Canon Cat UI to a PARC-derived UI, as you've described.

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