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From: macq@miguel.llnl.gov (Don MacQueen)
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Subject: Re: Question for net.views column in UNIX Today!
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Date: 1 Apr 91 18:05:19 GMT
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A single GUI standard?

1) The question is much too broad and ill defined for more than a simple answer 'no'.

2) In response to the single 'yes' response that I saw posted in which the argument was made that a single standard was necessary because (among other things) of the difficulty of switching between interfaces (Mac, OS/2, OpenWin etc):  the point is valid, it is a bother to switch between them.  But then, analogously, there should be a single text editor/word processor standard as well.  Because it is a heck of a lot more trouble to switch between editors than between GUI's.
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