check it out guys

ron browning ron_browning14223 at yahoo.com
Sun Jun 1 23:51:40 EDT 2003


Parc use was older and went back to a wordprocessor system.  Xerox then went to Xerox 'Globalview' which unlike the current stuff had security and a document control system better then Lotus Notes.  Xerox sold the source for 25K for both the windows and Unix version and as we said at Xerox, "it didn't use toner"!

Robert Meyer <meyer_rm at yahoo.com> wrote:
--- Asheville Joe wrote:
> This is silly, but it costs people a lot of money! It reminds me almost 
> exactly of when Apple tried to sue Microsoft for stealing it's Windows 
> design and in the middle of the whole thing, Xerox chimed in and said 
> they both swiped it from PARC. I bet almost no one remembers that by 
> now - as it should be.

I remember that whole mess. I actually saw a version of the Xerox 'Globalview'
program in action. The icons were identical to Apple's original desktop
layout. I always wondered if M$ would have been slowed down if they had lost
the lawsuit. Probably not, woulda just bought Apple out.

Cheers!

Bob


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