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From: barry@ADS.COM (Barry Lustig)
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Subject: Re: Virtual TWM desktop and Solbourne
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>  I've seen lots of windowing, and even non-windowing systems that have
>  the virtual screen concept, but I've never seen anything like
>  Solbourne's method.  It's clever, unique, intuitive, *but not obvious*.



   The idea of using a panner is not particularly unique.  Solbourne's
use of a panner was predated by the InterViews folks at Stanford.
Their code implements a panner that is very similar to that used by
Solbourne's window manager.  Who is copying from whom?



Barry Lustig
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