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And before Macwrite, or Macintosh computers existed, there was Xerox PARC and their GUI-based WYSIWYG editor called "Bravo", which Steve Jobs no doubt would have seen when he visited PARC.


'Bravo' was produced at Xerox PARC by Butler Lampson, Charles Simonyi and colleagues in 1974.

Then Charles went to Microsoft where he started and led Microsoft's applications group, where he built the first versions of Microsoft Office


That historic moment has been dramatized at least once.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u70CgBr-OI


I noticed Alan Kay himself in the comments, indicating about the only thing in the scene that is accurate is the guy playing Steve Jobs (Noah Wyle) looks/sounds similar to the real Jobs. Everything else was pure Hollywood fluff.




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