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From: wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu (Pierce T. Wetter)
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Subject: Re: A/UX window systems, Mac toolbox, etc
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Date: 11 Mar 88 00:03:58 GMT
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>An interesting anecdote. When I was working at Xerox, some people from DRI 
>came up from Monterey to talk to my manager about their troubles with Apple.
>Seems they wanted to see a Star environment and possibly use it as ammunition.
>They were *extremely* pleased to see those pictures with menus under them.
>Don't know what they did with this information. Maybe they're "copyright
>infringements" were much more than just pull-down menus (MacPaint, ...).
>Or maybe they couldn't afford the fight. At Xerox we were all pulling for DRI.
>Wish they'd stuck it out.

  In other words, they'd never seen anything _but_ the mac environment so they
must of copied the mac interface exactly. If they'd never seen a star they 
couldn't have copied it. QED. 
PIerce Wetter

Bolub's Fourth Law of Computerdom:
	Project teams detest weekly progress reporting because it so
	vividly manifests their lack of progress.

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