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From: rogue@well.UUCP (L. Brett Glass)
Newsgroups: misc.legal,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Apple Challenges HP New Wave, MS-Windows, Potentially OS/2 PM
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Date: 23 Mar 88 05:06:00 GMT
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Reply-To: rogue@well.UUCP (L. Brett Glass)
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Keywords: Apple HP Microsoft Windows OS/2 New Wave Frivolous Litigation

I talked to some people from HP today, and from their accounts I
get the impression that the Apple "exhibits" were somewhat of a
fabrication.

The New Wave trashcan, for instance, is different from the Mac
trashcan and appears in the upper left corner of the screen. The
window borders in standard New Wave applications are also
different than the ones pictured; they're thinner and can stretch
the windows. And, most importantly, New Wave >works< very
differently from the Mac. It uses DDE (Dynamic Data Exchange) to
allow different parts of the SAME document to be acted on by
different applications, even though the document appears in one
window. You can use drawing commands on a picture, editing
commands on the text, etc. without cutting and pasting or
shifting to another window.

I've only seen something like this done once elsewhere -- in a
non-graphic program called "The Incredible Jack" distributed by
Pecan software. It's actually a BIG step forward, and the "look
and feel" really is substantially different.

<rogue>