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From: s320@cs.utexas.edu (Ted Woodward)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga mentality cont'd
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Date: 11 Apr 90 23:19:15 GMT
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In article <5561@sugar.hackercorp.com> karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
>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.
>-- 
>-- uunet!sugar!karl   "I hate quotations.  Tell me what you know." -- Emerson
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Give me a break!  have you ever USED Smalltalk?  The user interface is
BRAIN DEAD!  It is not intuitive in any remote stretch of the
imagination...and the damn thing was expensive!!!!!  For some reason,
three possible costs come to mind: 22K, 15K, or 10K.  I don't remember
which is correct...and this is in 1975 dollars...

Just because apple's machine didn't multitask (I vaguely remember a
professor of mine with a Lisa saying it did, tho) doesn't mean the GUI
was any less powerful...that has nothing to do with the GUI.  As
someone pointed out earlier, Exec does the multitasking, not Workbench.
Xerox's GUI stuff did not produce ANYTHING as smooth as the mac (or the
amiga, for that matter.)  I know---I've (tried to) use smalltalk, on an
HP 9000.


-- 
Ted Woodward (s320@cs.utexas.edu)

Someone shot the food...