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In article <3vkkeu$ofc@freud.inst.com>, gato@freud.inst.com (gato) wrote:

> : >Get real! Why in hell is Microsoft spending millions (billions?) of
> : >dollars trying to get a system which runs like a Mac. Windows95 is really
> : >Mac89 . Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. The world is moving
> : >towards Mac without realizing it.
> 
> Exactly what makes Win95 even remotely similar to MacOS?  Please

Windows, ICONs, the trash can, menus, folders, an arrow cursor... Who says
the way the Mac did it is the only way to design a GUI? The fact that
somehow, out of the BILLIONS of possible permutations, Windows ended up
with the same key interface elements as the Mac is a pretty clear
indication that Microsoft copied the Mac. If the Mac had never become
reality do you think a) there would have ever been a Windows, or b) it
would have looked _anything_ like what it does today?

> elaborate.  If you're saying that it is similar because it's a GUI, you're
> taking an ignorant and simplistic approach.  Macintosh is not synonymous
> with GUI, and, though they pioneered it, GUI was an inevitability all
> along.  I guess you're saying that Unices which bundle Xwindows are

If you'd asked your typical PC "power" user in the late 80s which was
better: GUI or CLUI, he would have told you CLUI. Are you saying PC users
lack vision? Or just that they need to wait until Apple proves the
superiority of an interface before they'll jump on the bandwagon?

> imitating apple, too, by your freakish logic.  I guess, then, that Apple
> imitated BSD by going 32bit.  And Apple seems to imitate PC architecture,
> maybe that should tell you something, too (SCSI, PCI, etc) And who is Apple

SCSI is certainly not PC architecture. All Macs have it, very few PCs have it.

> trying to fool, calling MacOS System 7.5?  We all know it's not System V,
> dammit!  Also, Macs are emulating PCs now....those copycats!  AT&T and
> Microsoft should be flattered.

:P

Sam Huffman
schmeul@umich.edu