[IP] More on Jobs'commencement address: The deleted fourth story
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From: Bob Taylor <R.W.Taylor@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: June 16, 2005 9:10:14 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: More on Jobs'commencement address: The deleted fourth story
(Hi Dave. Please forgive me it this is a duplicate.)
In a recent note to IP, Paul Andrews' assessment of Jobs as a person
seems to
ring true. Here is a portion of Jobs' revisionist treacle referred
to by Paul:
From Steve Jobs' Stanford Commencement Speech (June of
'05) "It (the Macintosh) was the first computer with beautiful
typography. If I had never dropped in on that
(calligraphy) course in college, the Mac would have never had
multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts, and since Windows
just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have
them." This is simply a further manifestation of Jobs' already
infamous "reality distortion field".
Windows did not copy the Mac: they both borrowed their look and feel
from the Alto system. In the late 70s, several years before the Mac,
Alto systems (Altos, Ethernet, Dover laser printers, file servers,
print servers, mail servers) were donated to the computer science
departments of Stanford, MIT, and CMU. Students from those
departments at that time can testify that the Alto had multiple
typefaces and proportionally spaced fonts.
rwt
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