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From: mohan@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (Sunil Mohan)
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Subject: Re: DRI lawsuit
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Date: Thu, 10-Oct-85 12:22:22 EDT
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> From: Henry.Kautz
> 
> The Xerox STAR interface is quite different from the Mac/Lisa design.
> For starters, there are no menus of any kind, only dialog boxes.  Icons
> cannot be dragged.  Windows cannot be repositioned arbitrarily on the
> screen:  the most you can do ...............

> In short:  Apple was the first company to do a visual interface RIGHT.
> (Possibly the world's worst visual interface is on the Symbolic's Lisp
> machines.  $100,000+ per machine, and powered by nitroglycerin, but
> every single systems program does windows, scrolling, menus , etc
> differently!)

Haven't the Xerox D-machines been around longer than the Symbolics ?
At any rate the D-m/c interface is FAR better than any I have ever seen,
including the Mac, and Symbolics. 

Any info on what the interfaces on the CMU's 3M m/c and the corresponding
project at MIT are (or will be) like ?  
-- 

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Sunil

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