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In article <117@bodo.UUCP> talley@bodo.UUCP (James T. Talley) writes:
|  Could we put 
|a lid on the endless my-mouse-is-better-than-your-mouse thread?  Then we
|could all get back to designing improved user interfaces. :-)

If this topic doesn't interest you, then edit your KILL file.
for rn, type ^K and add:
	/:*comp.windows.misc*/:j

But I view this on a chance to discuss the future of the Mac.
Larry Rosenstein (@Apple) stated:

> I think it is pointless to discuss user interfaces feature by feature.
> The  Mac was designed with very different goals than the Sun. 

I understand the difference between a home computer and a Unix
workstation. But soon Sun and Apple will be competing in the low end
Unix Workstation market. My 'brilliant' prediction is that Sun will
have a full-blown window system ( or two) available on their box
before Apple releases theirs for A/UX.

Ignoring the installed software base, are the goals of the A/UX window
system different from Sun's?  If someone takes a good hard look at two
Unix boxes, one on a Mac, and another on a Sun, and they look at the
Unix user interface, - which box will they purchase?

In addition, future Macs will have large screens and better support
for multitasking. Are some Mac users going to learn that the window
system is slowing them down? Do you care?

The MacOS is very ambitious, and very impressive. Coming from a
no-mouse PC. the MacOS is light-years ahead.

But how will it be perceived by the Unix professionals and the power users?

The people with Suns, Apollos, HP's, Vaxes, Symbolics, TI, etc. at work.

Will it prove adequate to the needs of the future?

Or will it evolve? And to what?
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