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From: shiffman%basselope@Sun.COM (Hank Shiffman)
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Subject: Re: replacing the desktop metaphor
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Date: 27 Dec 88 23:57:19 GMT
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In article <4941@enterprise.UUCP> timd@cognos.UUCP (Tim Dudley) writes:
>In article <82828@sun.uucp> shiffman@sun.UUCP (Hank Shiffman) writes:
>>
>>Just a small correction.  Rooms comes from Envos, not ParcPlace.  
>
>WOW!  Do Card and Henderson know this??  Here they've had the wrong company on
>all their papers they've published!
>

I believe that Card and Henderson are still in residence at Xerox
PARC, where Rooms was developed.  Xerox PARC (the Palo Alto Research
Center) should not be confused with ParcPlace OR Envos, which are not
part of Xerox.  In any event, Envos has the rights to market Rooms.
ParcPlace does not.


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