Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!mintaka!olivea!decwrl!adobe!heaven!glenn From: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: 2.0: Initial Reactions Message-ID: <379@heaven.woodside.ca.us> Date: 21 Dec 90 19:38:27 GMT References: <4490@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> <371@heaven.woodside.ca.us> Reply-To: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) Organization: RightBrain Software, Woodside, CA Lines: 23 In article mdixon@parc.xerox.com (Mike Dixon) writes: >for the record, > it wasn't my idea, > PARC (a Xerox research lab) is not the same as PARCPlace (a PARC > spinoff to commercialize the Smalltalk work), and > i have yet to read a news posting that would have been improved by RTF... Sorry, Mike. I should know better than to half-remember things, rather than going back and getting it right. I do know the difference between PARC and PARCplace, and I apologize for that error, too. And, now that you mention it, I have to agree that news articles in general would not be improved by using RTF, although the FLAMES would improve dramatically when people could use italics and large sizes of type to tell each other that they are idiots. Thanks for your clarification; sorry to use your name in vain. Glenn -- Glenn Reid RightBrain Software glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us PostScript/NeXT developers ..{adobe,next}!heaven!glenn 415-851-1785