Re: The coming predominance of user experience andtechnicalcommunications

["Fred Ridder" <docudoc -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

Where in the world did you get that tidbit about "the grandfather
of our current president" contributing to either the Apple or Windows
GUI? (And for that matter, which one was it?)

My initial assumption was that you were referring to George W. Bush.
But President Bush's paternal grandfather was Prescott Bush, a US Senator
and investment banker who died in 1972, and his maternal grandfather
was a Marvin Pierce, a magazine publisher who died in 1969. I fail to see
how either of these gentlemen could have been involved in any way
in the development of a personal computer user interface in the early
1980s since both had been dead for roughly a decade before personal
computers even existed.

Or were you referring to some other current president?


>From: Chris Borokowski <athloi -at- yahoo -dot- com>
>To: John Garison <john -at- garisons -dot- com>, jlshaeffer -at- aol -dot- com
>CC: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
>Subject: Re: The coming predominance of user experience 
>andtechnicalcommunications
>Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:38:12 -0700 (PDT)
>
>That's not entirely clear, as many people, including the grandfather of
>our current president, worked on the GUI before it reached a final
>form.
>
> > jlshaeffer -at- aol -dot- com said the following on 7/25/2007 11:33 AM:
> > > And yet, those successful interfaces cannot be attributed
> > to?Technical Writers.
>
>
>http://technical-writing.dionysius.com/
>technical writing | consulting | development

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