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From: keithd@gryphon.COM (Keith Doyle)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: replacing the desktop metaphor
Keywords: desktop metaphor, graphical interfaces, computing environments
Message-ID: <9943@gryphon.COM>
Date: 23 Dec 88 17:38:39 GMT
References: <4361@pitt.UUCP> <688@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Reply-To: keithd@gryphon.COM (Keith Doyle)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <688@krafla.rhi.hi.is> thsa@rhi.hi.is (Thorvaldur S Arnarson) writes:
.In article <4361@pitt.UUCP> bonar@pitt.UUCP (Dr. Jeffrey Bonar) writes:
.>I have an invitation for net readers - create a metaphor for computing 
.>systems that goes beyond the desktop cliche.  Four years ago, Apple 
.>had something with the Macintosh desktop: a new way to think about 
.>computing.  Now, everyone is copying the desktop: Microsoft, IBM, 
.
.Why is it Apple allways given credit for the desktop idea,
.they copied it from XEROX's Smalltalk project!

Why?  Because Apple was the first outfit that had even the foggiest idea
of how to market it, that's why.

Keith Doyle
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