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In <1992Nov9.224941.25909@news.media.mit.edu> lacsap@plethora.media.mit.edu (Pascal Chesnais) writes:

>In article <BxEyq6.G7p@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B.  
>Nicholson-Owens) writes:
>>  However, I think the use of the term is not to imply that Pinnacle  
>> Research came out with the idea and their product is the first to use it  
>on any  
>> platform, but instead to say that no other product on the NeXT has used  
>it, and  
>> therefore, VirtSpace v2.6 is the first to do so.
>> -- 
>> -- Jeff (jeffo@uiuc.edu)
>> -- NeXTmail welcome

>well that is not true either,  ScreenScape has this functionality
>for the NextDimension before VirtSpace existed...

>So it is just marketting hype...

Shesh, so friggen technical.  How about someone disprove this then:
Virtspace was the first available virtual window manager with
auto-scrolling available for ALL NeXT's.  Not just for a very small
subset of them.  I never even *heard* of ScreenScape before 3.0 rolled
out, and I can't use it anyways.  And I sure didn't see anybody
telling folks to use ScreenScape to do this kinda thing when VirtSpace
came out.

So enough harping.  Yes it isn't a new idea, yes it's 'innovativeness'
is subject to debate.  If you want to get technical, I doubt you will
come up with an 'innovative' idea this year that someone hasn't
thought up before you.  But I'll bet you come up with plenty
'innovative' ideas that most no one has heard before.  I won't tell
anybody they aren't so 'innovative'. :)

-dsm