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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Complaints about Amiga OS 2.0
Keywords: speech 2.0 shell menu
Message-ID: <1886@corpane.UUCP>
Date: 1 Jun 90 14:22:44 GMT
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Organization: Corpane Industries, Inc., Louisville Ky
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rar@auc.UUCP (Rodney Ricks) writes:

|Wow!  With just windows and a menu you have a GUI!?!?  I'd better call the
|folks at MIT, and tell them that X Windows IS a GUI!  :-)

er, Xwindows ***IS*** a GUI, buddy. Icons, menus, the whole shmear.

Plus it multi-tasks, unlike workbench (I know the programs run from 
workbench multi-task but WB doesn't. That's what the little sleepy cloud is
for. It means workbench is busy and can't do anything else till it gets 
finished.)


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