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Subject: Re: DRI agrees to change GEM
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Date: Fri, 18-Oct-85 02:54:38 EDT
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In article <795@psivax.UUCP> friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) writes:
>In article <280@graffiti.UUCP> peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>>
>>The GEM desktop has been changed: two windows only, no resizable windows,
>>no trashcan, no horizontal scrollbars. Strange, since none of these things
>>are original with the Mac, but I guess any lobotomisation would do.
>>
>	Only TWO windows!! NO trashcan!?!? These change would make GEM
>almost useless! Remind me not to buy this product! And to think a
>month ago GEM was supposed to be the best windowing system around for
>MS-DOS. Ce la vie!
>-- 
>

	Seems to me that MS-DOS will have to rely on hacks of AT&T's windowing
UNIX for their 6300, out Very Soon Now (the hack's so it will run on other than
the 6300).  Somehow I doubt that Apple will sue AT&T over that one...

Peter Korn
korn%ucbcory@Berkeley.ARPA