On 15 March 2017 at 02:23, Chris Hanson via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > A lot of research and development went into the Lisa and Macintosh > interfaces. They weren’t just “copied from Xerox.” If you sit someone who > knows how to use a Mac in front of a circa-1979 Xerox Alto, they’ll be pretty > mystified.
Absolutely -- but people who only know modern GUIs do not know this. I have had just 1 chance to use a live working original Lisa. I was fairly mystified myself. It's radically different from the Mac, and the Lisa was radically different from the Xerox machines, from all the demos I've seen. I wrote here ( https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/03/thank_microsoft_for_linux_desktop_fail/ ) about how much almost all modern desktop GUIs inherit from Windows 95, and how much Windows got from the Mac. Only if you use pre-Windows 3/OS2 PM GUIs do you realise how different, and diverse, they once were. -- Liam Proven • Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • Google Mail/Talk/Plus: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: lproven • Skype/LinkedIn/AIM/Yahoo: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 • ČR/WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal: +420 702 829 053
