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Re: Rooms? (Was: Finder Improvements)

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From: Mike Dixon
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 1988 23:14
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In article <4151@Portia.Stanford.EDU> rick@Jessica.stanford.edu (Rick Wong)
writes:
> ....
>By the way, Rooms was developed at Xerox AI Systems, not PARC (just
>setting the record straight).

Just to set the record a little straighter, Rooms *was* developed at
PARC, by Stu Card and Austin Henderson.  It was later reimplemented
(primarily by Doug Cutting, I believe) and marketed by Xerox AI
Systems.
                                             .mike.
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                                             .mike.
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From: mdixon@arisia.Xerox.COM (Mike Dixon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Rooms? (Was: Finder Improvements)
Summary: PARC *did* develop Rooms
Keywords: Rooms, Xerox
Message-ID: <450@arisia.Xerox.COM>
Date: 18 Nov 88 23:14:40 GMT
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