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Article #40277Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!
From: Jerry Shekhel
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 1989 15:35
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 1989 15:35
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dorourke@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (David M. O'Rourke) writes:
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> You've obviously not ever used a system that allowed you to use two screens
>effectivly. It's very nice to debug on one screen and run your code on the
>other, just as much as simply having the extra screen real-estate.
>
This is possible on a PC. Take a look at CodeView, the standard Microsoft
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.
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> the Mac's treatment of multiple screens and the ease with which the user
>can configure a multi-screen system is truely one of the nicer things about
>a macintosh.
>
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.
>
>David M. O'Rourke____________________|_____________dorourke@polyslo.calpoly.edu
>
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!oliveb!bu-cs!polygen!jerry From: jerry@polygen.uucp (Jerry Shekhel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Xerox sues Apple!!! Message-ID: <635@taylor.UUCP> Date: 23 Dec 89 15:35:50 GMT References: <6767@tank.uchicago.edu> <1989Dec17.112127.27333@me.toronto.edu> <14960@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <4574@ur-cc.UUCP> <37366@apple.Apple.COM> <625@bogart.UUCP> <1989Dec21.010731.5240@hellgate.utah.edu> <630@hepburn.UUCP> <1989Dec22.053818.362@polyslo.CalPoly.ED Reply-To: jerry@taylor.UUCP (Jerry Shekhel) Organization: Polygen Corporation, Waltham, MA Lines: 32