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From: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith)
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Subject: Re: A few questions
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Date: Tue, 30-Sep-86 16:42:52 EDT
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In article <280@uwmacc.UUCP> oyster@uwmacc.UUCP (Vicarious Oyster) writes:
>
>   Oh, the Mac again, eh?  Well, I'll explain a little better.  The fine,
>original-thinkers at Apple made the Macintosh in the image of a Xerox
>icon-based OS interface.  The folks at DRI did the same.  However, one of
>those companies was bigger, and had more money to spend on lawyers, so
>they made the other company make some small yet significant changes to 
>their OS interface, so they wouldn't have the same "look and feel" as that
>original Xerox product.  Life is strange, no?

Isn't it interesting that Amiga has not had any problems with Apple?
( or have they and I just haven't heard about it? ).  The point is
that it is possible to make a reasonable user interface for a mouse
based windowing system without copying the "look and feel" of the Mac.
Why couldn't DRI go to the trouble of doing this?

From what I have seen, it looks like Apple looked at the Xerox stuff
as a source of ideas.  DRI appears to have looked at Apple and tried
to look as much like them as possible.  There's a difference.
-- 
What's the difference between a duck?

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