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From: kishore2@watdcsu.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Better Windows?
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Date: Thu, 14-May-87 00:26:59 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 14 00:26:59 1987
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Reply-To: kishore2@watdcsu.UUCP (Sherman Lang - Systems Design)
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In article <8705130929.AA17766@cogsci.berkeley.edu> bryce@COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU (Bryce Nesbitt) writes:
>In article <> pete@gpu.utcs.totonto.edu
>>  Wouldn't it make more sence to allow WINDOWS to have there own menu systems?
>> These could be modal (only the active windows menus available) or semi-modal
>> (active and desktop available). This kind of scheme would make multitasking
>> much more intuitive.
>
> You just described "Intuition", the Amiga user interface. Each window may
> be attached to a menu strip.  *poof*.
>
Of course it's not anything new that the folks at C-A thought up.
Have a look at the user interface on a Xerox Lisp machine sometime
to see a very nice user interface.