I sent his Stanford speech to a friend of mine who is at a programming level
few reach - although there are a few of you on that level here -

Larry was writing assembly code for Xerox back in the day - trying to
convince them of a wider use for microprocessors (sorta like Wozniak and HP
I guess ;-) ) -

Anyway while he liked most of the speech he thought that the idea that PCs
and Macs have so much variety in fonts is because of Job's Calligraphy class
was absurd - computers would have had it anyway -

He also said that Jobs got so many of his GUI ideas from Xerox in Palo
Alto - and the Mac and Lisa were originally going to be text based systems.

I do believe Steve is given a bit too much credit for originality with the
GUI and believe that should go to Xerox -

But he did bring it to market...What do you all think?

Bill

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