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Re:Creation Myth – Xerox PARC, Apple, and the truth about in... by Aloha on Saturday January 31, 2015 @06:17PM (#8978469)
a great quote, but not quite right..

The Alto UI was revolutionary for its time, but it was not the same as the Macintosh UI, no overlapping windows for example, regions in quickdraw being the big differentiator.

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=I_Still_Remember_...

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Re:Creation Myth – Xerox PARC, Apple, and the truth about in... by yarrel on Saturday January 31, 2015 @11:10PM (#8979133)
The Apple team added overlapping windows because they misunderstood what they'd seen at PARC.

(Source: Insanely Great, iirc.)

QuickDraw was completely awesome, whatever its inspiration.

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Re:Creation Myth – Xerox PARC, Apple, and the truth about in... by jfb on Saturday January 31, 2015 @06:24PM (#8978486)
I love the Herzfeld version because of how Gates is portrayed, really.
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