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From: Lawson.English@p88.f15.n300.z1.fidonet.org (Lawson English)
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Subject: User interface issues (was Re: Dialog Modality)
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Date: 8 Apr 91 04:42:37 GMT
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john  cavallino writes in a message to All

J C> Question for Apple Gurus Most High: what happened to the idea 
J C> of the Chooser creating an object called the desktop printer, 
J C> upon which documents could be dropped? Is this part of the postponed 
J C> New Printer Architecture? Am I suffering from a memory fault?

Probably went away when XEROX sued Apple over its interface: the Printer ICON
thing was a SmallTalk-80 invention (we wouldn't want to copy someone would 
we?).


Lawson
 

 

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