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Article #26205Re: A/UX window systems, Mac toolbox, etc
From: Pierce T. Wetter
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 1988 00:03
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 1988 00:03
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>An interesting anecdote. When I was working at Xerox, some people from DRI >came up from Monterey to talk to my manager about their troubles with Apple. >Seems they wanted to see a Star environment and possibly use it as ammunition. >They were *extremely* pleased to see those pictures with menus under them. >Don't know what they did with this information. Maybe they're "copyright >infringements" were much more than just pull-down menus (MacPaint, ...). >Or maybe they couldn't afford the fight. At Xerox we were all pulling for DRI. >Wish they'd stuck it out. In other words, they'd never seen anything _but_ the mac environment so they must of copied the mac interface exactly. If they'd never seen a star they couldn't have copied it. QED. PIerce Wetter Bolub's Fourth Law of Computerdom: Project teams detest weekly progress reporting because it so vividly manifests their lack of progress. -------------------------------------------- wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu --------------------------------------------
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!elroy!cit-vax!tybalt.caltech.edu!wetter From: wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu (Pierce T. Wetter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.windows.misc Subject: Re: A/UX window systems, Mac toolbox, etc Message-ID: <5723@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> Date: 11 Mar 88 00:03:58 GMT References: <1710@ssc-vax.UUCP> <579@eplrx7.UUCP> <7550@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <3916@ihlpf.ATT.COM> <1512@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> <484@siemens.UUCP> Sender: news@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu Reply-To: wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (Pierce T. Wetter) Organization: California Institute of Technology Lines: 22