🚀 go-pugleaf

On Wed, 10 Apr 1996 00:52:17 GMT, matth3w@arbornet.org <matth3w@arbornet.org> wrote:
 >thurrott@getnet.com (Paul Thurrott) wrote:
 >
 >>In article <4jij1v$oc4@ill.msilink.com>, twig@babba.cu-online.com (Shaw Terwilliger) wrote:
 >>>Dave Glue (daveacg@interlog.com) wrote:
 >>>: >I think what he means is the "unix-style" mouse tracking...
 >
 >>>: Which has been available for months in one of the PowerToys add-ons
 >>>: from MS.
 >
 >>>        Hm... it's just now part of the toys from Microsoft (aren't all of 
 >>>their products toys?) but has been part of the Motif/X11 system for years
 >>>and years.  I guess, once again, Microsoft leads the way in innovative 
 >>>GUI solutions for users. :)
 >
 >>Cute.  And like most similar arguments, pointless.  That Xerox "invented"
 >>the GUI as we know it is fascinating as a historical point, but irrelevant
 >>to the millions of people that use Windows, OS/2, and the Macintosh every
 >>day.  Likewise, that Mofif/X11 systems have had a little mouse tracking
 >>utility "years ago" is also irrelevant--now it is on Windows, the most
 >>popular OS in the history of computing with over 150 million units 
 >>installed worldwide.  Suddenly, this little "toy", as you call it, can
 >>reach a far greater audience than Motif could ever dream of.  That, sir,
 >>is relevant.  You, and your cutesy remarks, are not.
 >
 >>P.

 
 		Well allow me a moment of your time. This entails no cutesy remarks.
		In order to have a market Motif ( I will stick to generic X, since
		this is true for both ) never dreamed of, ms will first need a 
		windowing system that can actually offer the most basic features
		that X offers. Contrary to the naive notion that a windowing system
		is a way to keep from typing or to cut and paste clip art, a
		windowing system should provide an interface over a network.
		Unfortunately, I have never met a microsoft user that can grasp
		this concept. So, LISTEN UP. In terms any one that can find a
		keyboard can understand (is this to much of an expectation?),
		using an application they can understand (at least as a user):
		Log on to a machine running any OS made by Microsoft from your
		OS made by microsoft. Preferably in another state or country.
		Now, call someone up that you know is using any Microsoft OS,
		NOT at the same place you logged on to, but preferably also
		in a very remote location. Now, start up netscape on the remote
		machine you logged into and display the Netscape browser
		on your friends machine. Did they leave this radio button
		out of control panel? 
		
		So tell me how to do this. Anyone thinking of mentioning
		eXcursion, reflectionX, eXceed, dvx, etc, don't. This
		is an X based solution and therefore circumvents the
		windows interface rather than using it.
		
		semon@comp.tamu.edu
		
		several irrelavent newsgroups removed from the header.
		like the one from which I reeled in this shining example
		of posting elegance, comp.security.unix.  I'm not the
		only one that failed to make the connection between this
		thread and security am I?