"The award winners acknowledge that they did not anticipate how lucrative
the software running on their machines,  early versions of Microsoft's
Windows programs, would become."


I'll bet they didn't even know it was MS Windows they were running . . .

The article's writer seems to have missed the meat course.

Gary



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John M McIntosh" <johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com>
To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list"
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Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 12:05 AM
Subject: Draper prize awarded


They built today's office 30 years ago

Posted 2/24/2004 9:03 PM
By Dan Vergano, USA TODAY
Engineering's highest honor was awarded Tuesday to the team that
created the modern computerized office three decades ago.

Four engineers who worked at the Xerox Corp.'s Palo Alto (Calif.)
Research Center in the early 1970s — Robert Taylor, Alan Kay, Butler
Lampson and Charles Thacker — split the $500,000 Draper prize awarded
annually by the National Academy of Engineering.


http://www.usatoday.com/news/science/2004-02-24-office-usat_x.htm


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