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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Chickens vs Eggs
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Date: Fri, 20-Feb-87 13:56:32 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 20 13:56:32 1987
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>I've noticed lately a lot of commercial products very similar in appearance
>to PD programs I've gotten from the net - or is it the other way around?
>
>Some examples are Matt Dillon's Shell <-> Metacompco Shell,
>		  some Zing utilities <-> PopCLI, saveilbm, browsers
>and lately	  Matt's Med	      <-> Professional Text Engine

	Well, I have never seen or used the Metacompco Shell or the
Professional Text Engine.  My Shell is based on UN*X CSH.  The Metacompco
Shell probably is based somewhat on CSH also, which would explain the
similar appearance.  Med's interface is based on Texit (A Text editor I
wrote for the PET computer 4 years ago), but is so straight forward that 
one can draw similarities with most other editor's on the market. (The
purpose of MED was to provide a *fast* low-memory-usage editor).

	P.S. Don't confuse my Med with another Med which is floating around
the net.  Originally I was going to call it DED for 'Dillon Ed', but that 
sounds to much like 'DEAD'. 

				-Matt