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Re: replacing the desktop metaphor

#1179
From: Hank Shiffman
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 1988 18:03
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In article <12417@garnet.BBN.COM> mlandau@bbn.com (Matt Landau) writes:
>This is beginning to sound in some ways like a network-distributed version
>of Rooms, the new "desktop thing" from ParcPlace.

Just a small correction.  Rooms comes from Envos, not ParcPlace.  An
easy mistake to make, since they were both spun off from Xerox.

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Hank Shiffman                                     (415) 336-4658
AI Product Marketing Technical Specialist       ...!sun!shiffman
Sun Microsystems, Inc.                          shiffman@Sun.com

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From: shiffman%basselope@Sun.COM (Hank Shiffman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc,comp.sys.next,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: replacing the desktop metaphor
Keywords: desktop metaphor, graphical interfaces, computing environments
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Date: 22 Dec 88 18:03:27 GMT
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