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From: ddev@wam.umd.edu (Don DeVoe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga mentality cont'd
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Date: 11 Apr 90 18:26:05 GMT
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In article <5561@sugar.hackercorp.com> karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
>In article <4087@nmtsun.nmt.edu> dksnsr@nmtsun.nmt.edu (Dr. Mosh) writes:
>>I guess EVERYONE has tried to copy Mac in software then, after all, what
>>are all the GUI's on the market based on?  Most of them are just variations
>>and improvements on the Mac interface...
>
>Oh, please.  Apple didn't invent GUIs, Xerox did.  And Apple's implementation
>substantially degraded their power.  Xerox's multitasked and included an
>integrated object-oriented programming environment as well, and that was 15+
>years ago, to boot.

Excuse me, but what do multitasking and object-oriented programming have to
do with a GUI? Are you trying to say that Apple's interface is less
powerful than the Xerox's? Have you ever used a Xerox? Do you know what you're
saying?? Please tell me how your comments are relevant to the power of a
GUI, and how you decided that Apple's GUI 'degraded' the power of the
Xerox GUI...without talking about OS concerns.

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Don DeVoe
ddve@epsl.umd.edu