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		_19qg on Jan 31, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Decline of the Xerox PARC Philosophy at Apple ... While Jobs saw a Smalltalk system during some Xerox PARC visit, the Mac was more influenced by the Xerox Star office system with its GUI, Desktop, Icons, ... http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/xerox-8010/retro... Compare that with a classical Smalltalk UI: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/blampson/38-al... The programming language of the Xerox Star system was 'Mesa'. Which was much more like what Apple used: Clascal, Lisa Pascal, and then Object Pascal, ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesa_(programming_language)

SlipperySlope on Jan 31, 2015 [–]

Yeah, back in the day the bitmapped display was so awesome.Look at the proportional fonts and bitmapped image!

I was using IBM 3270 terminals, in a special shared room for that purpose, to edit COBOL programs with fixed width fonts - ugh.

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