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Article #170Re: GUIs Considered Harmful
From: exuptr
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 17:23
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 17:23
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In article <1992Sep10.145345.17065@sophia.smith.edu> jfieber@sophia.smith.edu (John Fieber) writes:
>It really baffles me why other window systems have not adopted
>proportional scroll bars. It is not like they are a new concept
>or something---the Amiga has been using them for about 7 years
>now. (And I seriously doubt Commodore would try to sue anybody
>else who used them!)
Microsoft may be more worried about the proportional scrollbars in OS/2
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