On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 20:57 -0700, James McKenzie wrote: > On 6/14/11 10:20 AM, Jon Ingason wrote: > > 2011-06-13 04:26, James McKenzie skrev: > > And before MacOX, there was Lisa and before Lisa was Star ;-) > > > > But that was loooong ago! > > > Lisa bombed, it was the first major failure for Apple. Never heard of > Star (and if it was anything like Lisa, I don't want to.)
Star was an attempt by Xerox to make some money out of what the PARC people were doing (you know, the people who invented window systems, Ethernet, laser printers, etc.). I actually saw one in a demo in the early 80's. It was basically a document processor -- the first commercial system with a WYSIWYG interface -- but the base price was around $15,000 per workstation IIRC and they sold very few. All this was before Steve Jobs visited PARC and picked up some interesting ideas ... See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Star poc -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
