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From: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: System 7 question
Message-ID: <1989Dec13.220250.8444@smsc.sony.com>
Date: 13 Dec 89 22:02:50 GMT
References: <10734@claris.com> <20626@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: dce@Sony.COM (David Elliott)
Organization: Sony Microsystems Corp.
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In article <20626@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> mkao@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Mike "Butterball" Kao) writes:
>
>Speaking of future Apple system software, will Apple ever develop an
>interface akin to that of the NeXT's or even just X-windows?

Could you be more specific?  What's missing from the Mac interface
that's in NeXT or in some X specification (i.e., OpenLook or Motif -- X
isn't really an interface specification)?

Are you missing applications?

Are you missing window management functions?

If so, what specifically do you want to see?  Apple doesn't supply
a lot of things because they aren't an applications company.

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