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From: obrien@aeroaero.org (Michael O'Brien)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga mentality cont'd
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Date: 11 Apr 90 18:04:31 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.

And one of the Xerox implementations was Smalltalk, and you can still
buy it, and
it's better than ever, except don't bother trying to get it for the Amiga.  If
you could, my purchase problems would be solved.  As it is I'm gonna have to
get a IIfx.  Too bad.
--
Mike O'Brien
obrien@aerospace.aero.org