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From: gibson@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com (Bill Gibson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Of Mice And Men
Message-ID: <6642@hplabsz.HP.COM>
Date: 28 Feb 91 21:55:54 GMT
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Organization: HP Labs, Palo Alto CA
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I use a window system designed before bitmapped displays were
actually available.  My windows are described in terms of their
vertices and cursor movements, each of which is mailed to me
on a punched card.  I often go down to the Postal Dispatch Office
to hand the next horseman a ButtonDown request and a canteen of
water for his trip.

After another month of this interaction, I expect to complete
the first move against my computer 
in our play-by-mail chess game.


Bill                                                gibson@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com
user's inner face