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From: gwangung@milton.acs.washington.edu (Roger Tang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Xerox vs Apple; Finder User Interface Ideas wanted
Message-ID: <2547@milton.acs.washington.edu>
Date: 26 Mar 90 15:48:15 GMT
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In article <1990Mar26.142308.6947@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> topgun@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Chandra Bajpai) writes:
>What is it that consitutes the Mac User Interface vs. say NeXT Step or
>OSF/Motif?  Trash cans? Disk icons? Double clicking and Dragging?

	I haven't the briefs at hand, but from memory, I seem to recall
things like menus at top, pull down menus, scroll bars, etc.  None of
those are strictly necessary in any GUI.  Neither are trash cans, of course,
although that tends to be trivial.

	There are other matters, such as how to manage files, where I can
see alternatives to the Mac interface.