Also found in the The Economist Software Survey:
... Tim Brown, chief executive of Ideo, a leading design firm that developed
such classics as the first mouse for the Macintosh.....
Re Xerox Park, they said:
The PC’s so-called WIMP (windows, icons, menus, pointer) interface was invented
in the early 1970s at Xerox Parc,
Doug, however, worked with menus before Xerox Park, notably the help menu. But I
understand that he found keying with chord faster.
Henry
P.S. Dennis, what is a gravity mouse?
"Dennis E. Hamilton" wrote:
> Oddly enough, the patent on the "gravity mouse" is held by Xerox. (I am
> embarrassed that I don't remember the name of the inventor, who led Xerox
> Corporate System Architecture around 1988-1993.)
>
> And yes of course, the mouse itself was not invented at Xerox.
>
> -- Dennis
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henry van Eyken [mailto:vaneyken@sympatico.ca]
> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 13:59
> To: unrev-II@yahoogroups.com
> Cc: Doug Engelbart - Bootstrap Institute
> Subject: [unrev-II] The Economist's software survey
>
> The Economist came to the rescue of those of us who sometimes get a
> little lost in our discussions:
>
> http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?Story_id=568249&CFID=394445&CFTOKE
> N=4575162
>
> Incidentally, I already emailed their editor about that common error
> that the mouse was invented by Xerox Parc.
>
> Henry
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