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In <schmeul-0108950744430001@pscmc3.chemistry.aa.wl.com> schmeul@umich.edu (Sam Huffman) writes:

>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. 

Maybe they have a common ancestor (XEROX PARC anyone?).

>If the Mac had never become
>reality do you think a) there would have ever been a Windows, 

Yes.  The basic ideas of the Mac come from a different company, who did
the research.  Apple was the first one to include the results of this
research work into a commercially successful product.

>or b) it
>would have looked _anything_ like what it does today?

Probably yes, given the common ancestor already mentioned.
>
>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?

The "superiority" of the GUI interface has yet to be proven, as far as
the power users are concerned.  In Unix, most people prefer to use a
modern shell (which saves a lot of typing) rather than a drag, drop and
multi-click GUI (plenty of them exist for Unix).

Dan
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