Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!grebyn!ckp From: ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga (Games--Macintosh vs A500) Message-ID: <1991Mar14.235518.9837@grebyn.com> Date: 14 Mar 91 23:55:18 GMT References: <1991Mar13.221028.8703@neon.Stanford.EDU> <1991Mar13.230616.1544@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1991Mar14.180927.10017@neon.Stanford.EDU> Organization: Grebyn Timesharing Lines: 30 [ I don't care how irrelevant the Subject: line is. This is .advocacy, after all. ] In article <1991Mar14.180927.10017@neon.Stanford.EDU> torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) writes: > Why do people insist on perpetrating this nonsense? Apple is not >trying to restrict competing GUIs... Do you see them complaining >about the Amiga? or NeXT? or Motif? or Openlook? Neither the Amiga nor the NeXT are a specifc threat to the Mac. Apple has nothing to gain and dollars and time to lose in persuing them, time and dollars better spent in persuing infractors with more cash... Open Look uses technology specifically licensed to AT&T by Xerox, which is the origin of all this desktop-metaphor, overlapping-windows & mice stuff anyway. Xerox technology was the seed for the Mac's interface. That Apple hasn't licensed this technology has not been an issue in the courts; and if Apple leaves Open Look and Xerox alone, it may not arise. Oh, and speaking of "innovations", the only time innovation appears is when a new computer architecture is introduced. The old original Mac 128 was an innovation in software and user interface technology on a PC. The Amiga 1000 was an innovation as a balanced custom VLSI hardware/ multitasking software combination with an emphasis on performance. Neither has really advanced past these basic innovations, the changes in both lines have merely been refinements. -- First comes the logo: C H E C K P O I N T T E C H N O L O G I E S / / ckp@grebyn.com \\ / / Then, the disclaimer: All expressed opinions are, indeed, opinions. \ / o Now for the witty part: I'm pink, therefore, I'm spam! \/