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From: elwell@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Clayton Elwell)
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Subject: Re: A/UX window systems, Mac toolbox, etc
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Date: 1 Mar 88 13:00:18 GMT
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barnett@steinmetz.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) writes:
    I bet Apple is finding out that converting the Mac toolbox to Unix
    is more complicated than they thought. 

Well, Phil Ronzone is entitled to the funny war stories on this one,
but from what he said to me when I picked up our seed EtherTalk card
last year, it was somewhat the other way--everyone was surprised at
just how well it *did* work.  (A/UX groupie trivia question here--what
was the first program to use use the toolbox under A/UX?)

As far as I am concerned, I'm willing to bet that now that A/UX and
Multifinder are now actually out the door, the A/UX folks and the Mac
OS folks will finally sit down and get the Printing Manager and the
Layer Manager working across the board.  It sure would be nice to have
something that looked like Multifinder on top and A/UX on the bottom.

NeWS has a very high niftitude, but I would love to see the Apple
Desktop Interface on top of it.  The demo user interface that comes
with NeWS is better than X, but it's still a hack.

What version of X are we up to now?  11?  I'm willing to give Apple
one or two more on the A/UX toolbox...

-- 
Clayton M. Elwell / elwell@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu