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In a recent article lad@eplrx7.UUCP (Lawrence A. Dziegielewski) wrote:
>It seems odd that shortly after 'the toy' hit the streets every other PC
>maker wanted windows,  and a mouse,  and started copying it.  And that's
>what I refer to as 'borrowing from'.  Apple had the foresight that the other
>computer companies didn't.  Until,  of course,  Apple starting having
>success with the Mac.  Everybody else wanted in then.

For an analogy, Visicalc (correct me if I've got the wrong company) was the
first company to produce a commercial spreadsheet program, back in '78 or so.
All the other companies (ie, Lotus etc) said "Wow this is wonderful we have to
do it too" and: proceeded to beat the socks off Visicalc. Having originally
been first did not automatically make Visicalc's product the most useful and
most successful in the long run. 

Apple was the first to do a mouse/popup/paint program/etc etc etc
commercially, but: that's several years ago now, and everybody has copied at
least those ideas and added new ideas. If Apple wants to keep possession of
their socks, they'd better start working on making A/UX a product that is the
peer of X, NEWS, etc. My perception is that they've been slacking off a
little. 

garry wiegand   (garry@oak.cadif.cornell.edu - ARPA)
		(garry@crnlthry - BITNET)