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From: shap@polya.Stanford.EDU (Jonathan S. Shapiro)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: [Stolen] Macintosh ROM Source
Message-ID: <9968@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 12 Jun 89 22:37:20 GMT
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In article <843@orbit.UUCP> granteri@pnet51.cts.com (Grant Erickson) writes:
>This kind of activity is quite annoying.  It is rather apparent the Mac and
>its interface is popular, X Windows on UNIX, Windows/386 for IBMs,  Amiga
>Emulators, Atari Magic Sac, etc.  And now this glut of Macintosh Clone makers.
>It is no wonder that this is happening.

Just to set the record straight, X Windows was completely independent
of MacOs.  It derived from the Andrew Window System and a couple of
others.  It had nothing whatsoever to do with MacOs.

Windowing systems have been around for a long time.  Don't assume that
they are all MacOs derived.

Jon