In article <C378A06B.9C06C%CSMA@gallopinginsanity.com>,
Snit <CSMA@gallopinginsanity.com> wrote:

> > After a world wide search going on for nearly 2 months, 24/7 by 1000's
> > of people, nobody has come up with the secret you keep.
>
> He did not want Jobs to see the famous Xerox tour... and would only do so if
> under "orders". Atkinson has described that tour as an inspiration and as
> something that helped them know they were already on the right track. Jobs
> and company understood the importance of the graphical system far better
> than did the Xerox management.

close.

Anyway, Jobs and company saw nothing BUT the GUI, and completely missed
the significance of the network and the printing. COMPLETELY.

Jobs was so blind, it wasn't funny.