More on Jobs'commencement address: The deleted fourth story

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Bob Taylor <R.W.Taylor () comcast net>
Date: June 16, 2005 9:10:14 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
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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