Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!gatech!prism!capone!ken From: ken@capone.gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii) Newsgroups: gnu.gcc Subject: Re: A strange sort of fanaticism. Message-ID: <886@hydra.gatech.EDU> Date: 26 Jun 89 12:53:15 GMT References: <8906190141.AA00386@sugar-bombs.ai.mit.edu> <2406@internal.Apple.COM> <7824@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> <9672@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Sender: news@prism.gatech.EDU Reply-To: ken@gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii) Distribution: gnu Organization: The House Of Fun Lines: 20 In article shadow@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine) writes: > >Actually, NeWS could be fairly easily reconfigured to imitate the >Macintosh... and X could probably too, though with much more work. >But what a waste it would be. Still, I'm sorta surprised some Apple >employee hasn't tried to Macify NeWS and sue Sun also... Maybe they >can't understand PostScript? ;-) > Well...no Apple employee that I know of has Mac-ified NeWS, but I have seen a NeWS interface that was a substantial clone of the Mac interface. I believe it was done at Sun by someone who liked the Mac interface. From what I understand, it was very easy to do, and it functioned as one would expect... ...ken seefried iii ken@gatech.edu ken seefried iii ...!{akgua, allegra, amd, harpo, hplabs, ken@gatech.edu masscomp, rlgvax, sb1, uf-cgrl, unmvax, ut-ngp, ut-sally}!gatech!ken