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    Posted: 07 Oct 11 at 1:02pm
Strange how the death of nobel peace prize winners and fabulously successful, and ground breaking, surgeons get's left to the obit pages of newspapers and possibly 2 min stint on the TV news, whereas a guy who has worked (successfully I'll grant you) for a company making PC's and phones gets mega air-time....
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Originally posted by G.R.F.

had Jobs not come along y'all would have been denied GUI's and we'd have all been stuck in the hands of the IT techs for much longer.



Actually Xerox created the GUI in 1973 (Alto). Steve Jobs saw it and used it for the first MAC GUI in the early eighties. At the same time the open source X windows also came out. So GUI's were there and were inevitably going to move to consumers, but Steve was the first to make that happen.
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I have no idea what a GUI is...

Guessing the UI is user interface?


Edited by Rupert - 07 Oct 11 at 4:23pm
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Originally posted by getafix

Strange how the death of nobel peace prize winners and fabulously successful, and ground breaking, surgeons get's left to the obit pages of newspapers and possibly 2 min stint on the TV news, whereas a guy who has worked (successfully I'll grant you) for a company making PC's and phones gets mega air-time....

They don't touch everybody's life, Jobs did, unless you've been in a cave and never used a smart phone or computer nor watched CGi animated movies like Toy Story.

His life has Holywood appeal wether he wanted to or not or wether you like it or not.

Nobody will mourn the passing of Michael Dell, or Larry Oracleman or Bill Gates or our own WWWman who's name I forget or even Alan Turin who is even more responsible and sadly only nowadays talked about for his sexuality,  anyway they won't be remembered in the same way because they didn't touch us all and influence market trends and influence the way we do things in the manner Apple and Pixar have.


Edited by G.R.F. - 07 Oct 11 at 4:43pm
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Originally posted by G.R.F.

Alan Turin who is even more responsible and sadly only nowadays talked about for his sexuality,


and ironically, many rumour it was an Apple that killed him.
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I went to School in Cambridge in the 1970's, it was a good school and had a computer link to the university, quite an unusual thing back then. We all learned basic progamming as part of our maths lessons.
 
There were two American kids, probably sons of university academics, who really got into progamming and as 14 to 15 year olds spent all their free time at school writing software. I often wonder what happened to them....and what they're doing with their billions!!
 
They were real geeks, as I'm sure was Steve Jobs, and Larry and Bill and all the other computer moguls. Just the sort that GRF usually takes the piss out of, interesting to hear him singing Mr Jobs praises now he's gone.
 
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Originally posted by G.R.F.

....unless you've been in a cave and never used a smart phone
I have been to Wookey Hole and have a Nokia scruffyfone. Guilty - untouched as charged.
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