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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future)
Message-ID: <1991Jun15.180607.10502@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Keywords: Future, Amiga, etc.
Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX
References: <30@ryptyde.UUCP> <1126@stewart.UUCP> <1991Jun10.071908.8353@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1991 18:06:07 GMT

In article <1991Jun10.071908.8353@neon.Stanford.EDU> torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) writes:
> jerry@polygen.uucp (Jerry Shekhel) writes:
> >The only real Apple innovation is the idea to steal the ideas of others.  

>   Show me the pull-down menus on the Xerox Star.

Oh, that's right. Apple did add some negative value to the Star concept,
like double-clicking instead of drag-and-drop, the one-button mouse, and
pull-down menus. One thing I was hoping that 2.0 would support was a
de-Macification of the workbench: pop-up menus and drag-and-drop application
launching would be a vast improvement. I guess you could add popup menus
with a SetFunction, but how about Drag-and-drop?
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'   <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
                   'U`    "Have you hugged your wolf today?"