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

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From: John Gregor
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 1988 16:32
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In article <579@eplrx7.UUCP> lad@eplrx7.UUCP (Lawrence A. Dziegielewski) writes:
>How can you say that the look and feel are being bypassed when nearly every
>windowing system has either 'borrowed from'  or flat out copied the Mac user
>interface.  There's MS Windows,  GEM,  and countless others who are riding
>the coat tails of Apple foresight.  

Ummmm, excuse me, but wasn't a lot of that "Apple foresight" work that
was pioneered by Xerox PARC about half a decade earlier?

I think the "Apple foresight" you mean is that they had the foresight to
'borrow from' or flat out copy PARC's work before DRI.

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John Gregor                                     johng%ecrcvax.UUCP@germany.CSNET
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From: johng@ecrcvax.UUCP (John Gregor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: A/UX window systems, Mac toolbox, etc
Message-ID: <507@ecrcvax.UUCP>
Date: 4 Mar 88 16:32:54 GMT
References: <1710@ssc-vax.UUCP> <579@eplrx7.UUCP>
Reply-To: johng@ecrcvax.UUCP (John Gregor)
Organization: ECRC, Munich 81, West Germany
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Summary: Computers for the rest of them...