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Old October 20th 18, 05:30 PM posted to rec.photo.digital
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In article , Eric Stevens
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That's strange. I got https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYG#History

"Bravo, a document preparation program for the Alto produced at
Xerox PARC by Butler Lampson, Charles Simonyi and colleagues in
1974, is generally considered the first program to incorporate
WYSIWYG technology,[6] displaying text with formatting (e.g. with
justification, fonts, and proportional spacing of characters)."


which almost nobody used outside of xerox, and it was also a complete
system, not a word processing app on consumer hardware.

the xerox star, which came later, also had very limited use (although
more than the alto) and was *very* expensive in the early 1980s.

the original mac was roughly 1/10th its price making it affordable for
many, it was noticeably faster and *much* easier to use than the star,
later macs even more so.


But it wasn't the first.


nobody said it was the first.

first isn't what spawns an industry, as you've been told many times.

xerox had no clue what they had. if they did, then *they* would have
productized their technology and changed the world.

they didn't. apple did.

interestingly enough, ms word 1.0 on the mac was very similar to the
word processing app on the star. when microsoft wasn't copying apple,
they were copying xerox, next and others, and got away with it.


They both were copying Xerox.


nope. apple didn't copy xerox. that's a common myth.

apple built upon the ideas of xerox, adding a lot of their own ideas,
including what xerox thought to be impossible as well as changing the
user interface to be significantly easier to use, all with xerox's full
permission and with payment.

the first mac running system 1 was only casually similar to a xerox
star. anyone claiming one was a copy of the other is very ignorant,
both about the history of the two companies and how both products
worked.

meanwhile, microsoft copied numerous companies, without permission and
certainly without payment, and did a ****ty job of it too.