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Re: A/UX window systems, Mac toolbox, etc

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From: Stephen B. Baumgarten
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 1988 23:23
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In article <1723@ssc-vax.UUCP> benoni@ssc-vax.UUCP (Charles L Ditzel) writes:
>Interesting, I have spent *alot* of time on the Mac...so I hope you are
>talking about someone else.  ... incidentally I was not maligning the Mac
>at all...I was stating the user interface practices have moved on since the
>Mac's introduction .  Instead of religious flaming why not look at what
>Apollo, Sun,  Xerox and Symbolics are doing.  I am familiar with these 
>machines and they have alot to offer.

Actually, the only thing Symbolics is doing these days is laying people off.
At least they're still one step ahead of rival Lisp Machines, a company that
now dearly wishes it had spent more time developing expert systems in
bankruptcy litigation...

[ :-), you know.  I just like poking fun at AI every now and then... ]

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From: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: A/UX window systems, Mac toolbox, etc
Message-ID: <351@esquire.UUCP>
Date: 4 Mar 88 23:23:22 GMT
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