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From: landauer@morocco.Sun.COM (Doug Landauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: A/UX window systems, Mac toolbox, etc
Message-ID: <44063@sun.uucp>
Date: 3 Mar 88 19:21:45 GMT
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In article <43879@sun.uucp>, I wrote:
> 
> I believe that the primary Macintosh user-interface feature that Apple
> felt the legal right to object to in GEM was the top-of-the-screen
> pull-down menus ...

Taken out of the context of the discussion of window systems, this was
a misleading statement.  Apple's other legitimate objections were to the
GEM *applications* GEM-Write, GEM-Paint and GEM-Draw, whose looks were
indeed copied identically (well, as well as you could do on an IBM-PC)
from the corresponding Mac applications.
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