Macintosh was named by Jeff Ruskin (Jeff Ruskin), the founder of Macintosh project, after his favorite apple variety Macintosh, but he deliberately changed the spelling of the letters to avoid conflict with the name of Macintosh Lab, an audio equipment manufacturer.
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1979, Apple developed a successor product-Lisa for Apple II, but at that time, the product development team had not decided to use the graphical user interface. Macintosh was a four-person research project at that time, and it didn't even attract Jobs' attention. Until the end of 1979, Jobs visited the Palo Alto Research Center of Xerox, which gave Apple a brand-new start and reformed the personal computer.
During several visits to Xerox PARC, Jobs and several other Apple employees saw the Xerox Alto computer in operation. It can be said that this has opened their eyes.
Alto computer has icons, windows, folders, mouse, pop-up menu, WYSIWYG text editor, Ethernet-based LAN, network-based printing and games. Jobs and others were also shown the concept of "cut, copy and paste" and the Smalltalk programming environment.
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