Because you've had your head under a rock? It was headline news when he died (which was after this was published).
> “And the question I remember most was from Steve Jobs. He said, ’You guys are sitting on a gold mine here. Why aren’t you making this a product?’”
Xerox WAS making it into a product (the Star). Of course Larry couldn't tell him about that. It failed, just like the Lisa did.
> As one of Tesler’s first tasks at PARC, he and a co-worker wrote a paper on the future of interactive computing, which for the first time talked about cut-and-paste as a way of moving blocks of text, images, and the like. It also described representing documents and other office objects stored on the computer as tiny images—icons—instead of as a list of names [see photo, ].
The "co-worker" was David Canfield Smith, who was directly involved in the Star, unlike Larry.
Because you've had your head under a rock? It was headline news when he died (which was after this was published).
> “And the question I remember most was from Steve Jobs. He said, ’You guys are sitting on a gold mine here. Why aren’t you making this a product?’”
Xerox WAS making it into a product (the Star). Of course Larry couldn't tell him about that. It failed, just like the Lisa did.
> As one of Tesler’s first tasks at PARC, he and a co-worker wrote a paper on the future of interactive computing, which for the first time talked about cut-and-paste as a way of moving blocks of text, images, and the like. It also described representing documents and other office objects stored on the computer as tiny images—icons—instead of as a list of names [see photo, ].
The "co-worker" was David Canfield Smith, who was directly involved in the Star, unlike Larry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt_zpqlgN0M. (he IS a little stiff in this)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OwG_rQ_Hqw