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From: pochron@cat28.cs.wisc.edu (David Pochron)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: FACTS ABOUT WB2.0 (Was: Re:WB2.0 for non-A3000)
Summary: Well, yes...(sort of)
Keywords: Draggable screens
Message-ID: <1991Feb21.202308.8334@daffy.cs.wisc.edu>
Date: 21 Feb 91 20:23:08 GMT
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In article <1991Feb17.033014.14347@cbnewsm.att.com> nsw@cbnewsm.att.com (Neil Weinstock) writes:
>
>Quick question:  Has there *ever* existed another machine that supports
>draggable screens a la the Amiga?  I've never seen one...
>
>Just curious,

Well, way back in 1986 I did write a windowing/icon/graphical text
system for my Atari 800 in 8K of assembly.  One of the things it supported
was draggable screens.  Jaws hit the floor at the Atari meeting I demoed it
at and people realized the 800 could do more than the ST...graphics-wise.

Of course, we can all thank Jay Miner once again for making draggable
screens possible! :-)

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>Neil Weinstock @ AT&T Bell Labs        //     What was sliced bread
>att!edsel!nsw or nsw@edsel.att.com   \X/    the greatest thing since?


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