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From: stuart@ihlpf.ATT.COM (S. D. Ericson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: A/UX window systems, Mac toolbox, etc
Message-ID: <3916@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
Date: 7 Mar 88 14:09:22 GMT
References: <1710@ssc-vax.UUCP> <579@eplrx7.UUCP> <7550@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Organization: The Sage Hovel
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Summary: pull-down by Apple!

In article <7550@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>, bob@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) writes:
> In article <579@eplrx7.UUCP> lad@eplrx7.UUCP (Lawrence A. Dziegielewski) writes:
> >Apple sued DRI for blatantly ripping off the Mac user interface,
> >something it has the right to do.
> 
> Nobody has yet been able to explain to me why Xerox didn't sue Aple
> for "blatantly ripping off" the UI features developed, or at least
> solidified, during PARC's glory days.  You know the ones: pull-down
> menus, icons, and such-like stuff.  I know that stuff wasn't unique to
[etc..]

This is an argument I've seen over and over.  But I think a lot of people
don't realize that *Apple* invented Pull-down menus.  Xerox has Pop-Up
menus, a much different concept that tends to require a multiple-button
mouse.  Pull-down menus allow for that wonderfully simple *1* button 
mouse.  There are other aspects of the mac environment that were
significant developments of the xerox ideas, but this one happens
to be my own favorite pet peeve.

Stu

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