How the Mac was born... supposedly...

[Peter C. Wallace]

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Jim Leonard wrote:

> Nothing "supposedly" about it, most of the anecdotes ring true.  You can read
> the entire book at www.folklore.org, since that's where the content comes from.


One thing that doesn't ring true for me is when he says the not one line of
code was taken from Xerox. I was involved in a project to make a LAB interface
(A-D/D-A I/O bits) for the first (128K) MAC. The earliest development software
was full of Xerox copyright notices...

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Peter Wallace
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