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From: diamond@diamond.csl.sony.junet (Norman Diamond)
Newsgroups: news.misc,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Official Legal Announcement regarding Apple's Source Code
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Date: 20 Jun 89 05:51:52 GMT
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In article <659@whizz.uucp> alexc@whizz.UUCP (Alex M. Chan) writes:

>	I agreed. But in my perosnal view, who would clone a MAC ?
>	To me it sees to be just a toy for kids to play with or a
>	fancy typing machine for people would like that "mouse" and those
>	stupid sounds... and stuff...

I agreed, until I used one for some real work.  Funny, people who have
X11 or other window systems suddenly discover that a mouse is useful
too.  And then I could go back and understand that the Smalltalk
semi-operating semi-system is the root for Mac and present-day window
systems, though lacking in user or programmer friendliness.

--
Norman Diamond, Sony Computer Science Lab (diamond%csl.sony.jp@relay.cs.net)
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