"David Friedman" <ddfr@daviddfriedman.nopsam.com> stated in post
ddfr-F3F9EC.22270302122007@sfo.news.speakeasy.net on 12/2/07 11:27 PM:

> In article <C378EDCD.9C119%CSMA@gallopinginsanity.com>,
> Snit <CSMA@gallopinginsanity.com> wrote:
>
>>> As best I recall, there were two other computer firms doing similar
>>> projects--home computers with graphical interfaces based on the Xerox
>>> Parc work--at the same time as Apple (Atari and Amiga). So if Apple
>>> hadn't done it, perhaps one of those would have taken over the role
>>> Apple actually played.
>>
>> Sure: if Apple never existed we would *not* still be using CLI computers...
>> we would be using some form of GUI. Still, it was Apple who deserves the
>> credit, even if someone else likely would have done something relatively
>> similar had they not.
>
> Some of the credit.

Of course. Fair enough.

> The original work was done at Xerox, and Atari and Amiga were selling GUI
> machines at about the same time as Apple, although they didn't up being as
> successful.

And let us not forget our friends at Microsoft: they have helped push the
GUI in some ways as well... though they clearly were not at the forefront
really pushing things. At least not on their own OS, anyway. :)


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