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From: tim@ism780c.UUCP (T.W."Tim" Smith, Knowledgian)
Newsgroups: misc.legal,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.apple,comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.hp,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Apple Challenges HP New Wave, MS-Windows, Potentially OS/2 PM
Message-ID: <9674@ism780c.UUCP>
Date: 8 Apr 88 01:05:56 GMT
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Reply-To: tim@ism780c.UUCP (T.W."Tim" Smith, Knowledgian)
Organization: Suction and Pressure Lab, California Institute of Lawsonomy
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In article <112@obie.UUCP> wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes) writes:
< You're mistaken here:  MS-Windows *IS NOT* a Mac look-alike.  Windows
< v. 1 (which was brain-dead) used tiled windows - a significant, if
< unweildy, difference.  Windows V. 2 has a significant difference
< (enhancement) over Windows V. 1 (and the Mac) - the menu bars run

I haven't seen V.2.  The thing I noticed about V.1 the few times I
have used it was that I knew how to do everything I wanted to do,
or could figure it out easily, by applying what I knew from using
the Mac.  With Sun windows or Amiga windows, it took me much longer
to figure out how to do things.  This is what I mean by look-alike.
Perhaps a more accurate term woulb be "feel-alike".

Is tiled vs. non-tiled significant?  I don't know.  I suppose that it
is one of the things that will be decided by this lawsuit.
-- 
Tim Smith				tim@ism780c.isc.com
"I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the
                       kind of person I'm preaching to" -- J.R. "Bob" Dobbs