Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: Apple & Xerox -- Was Re: 286 Billboards Message-ID: <7129@ficc.uu.net> Date: 28 Nov 89 17:05:33 GMT References: <2263@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Distribution: comp Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 17 In article <2263@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> kaleb@mars.UUCP (Kaleb Keithley) writes: > Apple bought the desktop metaphore fair and square, and Xerox has a big > chunk of Apple stock to prove it. And did they buy exclusive rights? If not, then it's Xerox who has been ripped off. Let then worry about it. Apple has a small number of innovations that they added to the Xerox metaphor: menu bars, the trashcan, and double-clicking are about it. And these are just the things that make Apple's desktop less intuitive than Xerox'. Sigh... -- `-_-' Peter da Silva . 'U` -------------- +1 713 274 5180. "The basic notion underlying USENET is the flame." -- Chuq Von Rospach, chuq@Apple.COM