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From: siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: [Stolen] Macintosh ROM Source
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Date: 14 Jun 89 00:58:11 GMT
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In article <2339@etive.ed.ac.uk> gja@etive.ed.ac.uk (A Cunningham) writes:

>of X to CMU in exchange for a tape of Andrew sources. However IBM stopped
>CMU from sending MIT a tape because they had rights to all Andrew software.

	When I was at CMU,  the joke was that Carnegie-Mellon University
was a wholly-owned subsidiary of IBM. :-)

	I was an early user of Andrew, and I've never used X; I don't
think that Andrew has any relationship to any earthly windowing system.
The window manager was pretty slow, and there was very little UI 
consistency.

	The finest part of the system was "Messages", which was the
program for reading newsgroups, and reading and sending mail. The finest
piece of workstation software I've EVER seen. if only there were something
like it so that I could read comp.sys.mac from my Mac...

	I think that nsb and the AMS group should get a medal for their
work.

		--Rich



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 Rich Siegel
 Staff Software Developer
 Symantec Corporation, Language Products Group
 Internet: siegel@endor.harvard.edu
 UUCP: ..harvard!endor!siegel

 I classify myself as a real developer because my desk is hip-deep in
 assembly-language listings and I spend more than 50% of my time in TMON.

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