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Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!

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From: Steve Hix
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 1989 19:59
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In article <635@taylor.UUCP>, jerry@polygen.uucp (Jerry Shekhel) writes:
> debugger.  What I meant was that using a second screen as real estate for
> your GUI is useless.  That's what the discussion was about.

Useless?  It's convenient enough when the application you're working on
happens to use the entire screen of the machine you're writing for.  The
second monitor beign used to run the debugger while the first is running
the application sounds pretty good to me...

> OK.  Enough said about this.  I'm sure that the Mac manages multiple screens
> in a much cleaner way than the PC.  I still believe that stacking 8 monitors
> on your desktop is not the best solution for a workstation-type display.

Certainly not on *my* desk...but two would be nice.

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Subject: Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!
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