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From: wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes)
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: <112@obie.UUCP>
Date: 2 Apr 88 18:23:04 GMT
References: <5480@well.UUCP> <5492@well.UUCP> <535@nunki.usc.edu> <9584@ism780c.UUCP>
Organization: the Well of Souls
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Summary: MS-Windows != Mac interface

In article <9584@ism780c.UUCP>, tim@ism780c.UUCP (T.W."Tim" Smith, Knowledgian) writes:
> A point you all seem to be missing is that Microsoft's Windows *IS*
> a Mac look-alike and that Sun's and Amiga's ( and MIT's, while we
> are at it ) don't look like Mac windows.  And the Mac interface
> doesn't feel like the Xerox one.

[...rest of argument deleted...]

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
across the TOP OF THE WINDOW, not the top of the screen.  Only having
one menu bar on the Mac makes true multi-tasking difficult.  Windows
V. 2 was MS's first shot at the OS/2 presentation manager, and was
designed for multi-tasking from the start.  When you run an
application on Windows 386, it pops up a window with it's own menu bar
and the desktop menu bar is still active.

	Wes Peters
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