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Re: Virtual TWM desktop and Solbourne

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From: Anton Rang
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 1990 17:15
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In article <9008100038.AA03110@rice-chex> EVERHART@arisia.dnet.ge.com writes:
>My copy of VScreen for Amiga dates from around April 1987.

  I believe that 'Stepping Out' on the Macintosh, from Berkeley
Systems (or some similarly-named company), dates from around the same
period; it provides similar functionality (a desktop larger than the
screen).  Of course, I don't know exactly what Solbourne claims to
'own' in this case.

	Anton
   
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From: rang@cs.wisc.edu (Anton Rang)
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Subject: Re: Virtual TWM desktop and Solbourne
Summary: Amiga's got a virtual desktop, so does Mac
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Date: 12 Aug 90 17:15:46 GMT
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Posted: Sun Aug 12 18:15:46 1990
In-reply-to: EVERHART@arisia.dnet.ge.com's message of 9 Aug 90 13:51:00 GMT