From:	Robert Watkins <bob@**.NTU.EDU.AU>
Subject:	Re: Off topic: Windows 95
Date:	Sat, 26 Aug 1995 11:34:40 +0930

Stainless Steel Rat wrote:
>
> >> I bought OS/2 Warp yesterday :).
> > Just another clone of MacOS !!!
>
> Not really.
>
> But then, if you want to be pedantic, the Macintosh OS is just a clone
> of the Xerox PARC GUI. In fact, the original versions of the Macintosh
> and Lisa operating systems (System 32) were written by people who wrote
> the PARC GUI.

Can we kill this please? The truth is: Apple BOUGHT the rights to the Xerox
PARC GUI, along with the contracts of many of the developers. IBM developed
OS/2 (and subsequent versions, including Warp) themselves, including the
human interface research to validate their ideas. Microsoft just stole
ideas from both sides.

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