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From: shiffman%basselope@Sun.COM (Hank Shiffman)
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Subject: Re: replacing the desktop metaphor
Keywords: desktop metaphor, graphical interfaces, computing environments
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Date: 22 Dec 88 18:03:27 GMT
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In article <12417@garnet.BBN.COM> mlandau@bbn.com (Matt Landau) writes:
>This is beginning to sound in some ways like a network-distributed version
>of Rooms, the new "desktop thing" from ParcPlace.

Just a small correction.  Rooms comes from Envos, not ParcPlace.  An
easy mistake to make, since they were both spun off from Xerox.

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Hank Shiffman                                     (415) 336-4658
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