Re: "look and feel" monopoly incentives and MacOS and 1-2-3 origins

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From: Miles Bader
Date: Fri, 24 May 1991 10:48

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gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Don Gillies) writes:
> 1.  The one button mouse was considered to be an idiotic, useless
> device, before Apple showed you could build a good machine around it.

Of course, some people might point to the macetc as confirmation that a one
button mouse was an idiotic, useless device...

-Miles
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