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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
Message-ID: <5526@well.UUCP>
Date: 24 Mar 88 23:23:42 GMT
References: <5480@well.UUCP> <4092@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <1719@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> <371@esquire.UUCP>
Reply-To: rogue@well.UUCP (L. Brett Glass)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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Keywords: Apple HP Microsoft Windows OS/2 New Wave Frivolous Litigation

In article <371@esquire.UUCP> sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten) writes:

>This makes some sense, especially since the original version of
>Windows, covered under the 1985 license agreement, had only "tiled"
>windows (i.e., windows that could not be dragged around, rearranged
>and overlapped with the mouse). 

This is incorrect. The original version of Windows had the capability
to do both kinds of windows. The tiled windows were merely the most
often-used option, since "religion" at Microsoft had it that this was
the best way to use screen space. IBM insisted that overlapping windows
be used to conform to its SAA interface, so they became the default
in Windows 2.0.

<rogue>