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In article <kii3ujINN9h0@agate.berkeley.edu>,
adam@soda.berkeley.edu (Adam J Richter) writes: 
>>>> == John Coolidge
>>>>[...] it's clear that the pace of
>>>>innovation picked up massively around the time that user interface
>>>>copyrights were become more of a viable notion).
> 
>>If you don't see this as obvious, we're watching two different
>>industries.
> 
> 	If it's so obvious to you, then you should have lots of
> examples in mind.  Please post them.
> 
> 	You may not use the Macintosh I, VisiCalc, Lotus, Tenex/TOPS-20,
> or VM/CMS, since all of those user interfaces were developed prior to 
> Jack Russo and Doug Derwin's creation of the "look and feel" doctrine,
> and certainly prior to Apple's lawsuit against Digital Research.

If you were to actually use a Mac, rather than sitting around talking about how
awful it is, you would be well aware of just how much the user-interface has
changed from 84 to 91. When color was added, there were a whol bunch of
guidelines about how to use it. What about the addition of multitasking, and
the extensions to the user-interface to cope with that? How about the
user-interface parts of the communications toolbox and networking? How about
Appletalk remote and the use of serial lines to extend the user-interface,
rather than being tied to terminal emulation? Have you read the User-Interface
guidelines on the use of sound, now that so many Macs come with microphones? I
guess you consider the user-interface issues related to dealing with movies and
multi-media to be based on work done by some nameless group 15 yrs ago?

USE a Mac for some time, compare it to a PC running Win3, and maybe you might
realize that there is more to a decent user-interface than bright colors and a
mouse.

Maynard Handley