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From: bob@odi.COM (Bob Miner)
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Subject: Re: X marks the suit
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     How long has Solbourne been making 'virtual desktops'? There's some
     company that does the same thing for the Macintosh, and has been selling
     that since '87 or '88. I forget the name, but they also did the CloseView
     init that apple includes as system software.

     I'm betting that Solbourne aren't the first to do virtual desktops.

     	Pete Clark
     	Honeywell SRC
     	Minneapolis, Mn

Come to think of it, since the early 80's MacPaint has had a 'Show Page'
command which showed the entire page and allowed you to move a rectangle
representing the visible region around on the page.  This is identical to
the virtual desktop which swm has.  Perhaps Apple/Claris should sue Solbourne?

Bob Miner
bob@odi.com