Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!claris!peirce
From: peirce@claris.com (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: [Stolen] Macintosh ROM Source
Message-ID: <10273@claris.com>
Date: 13 Jun 89 01:04:14 GMT
References: <843@orbit.UUCP> <9968@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: peirce@claris.com (Michael Peirce)
Organization: Claris Corporation, Santa Clara CA
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In article <9968@polya.Stanford.EDU> shap@polya.Stanford.EDU (Jonathan S. Shapiro) writes:
>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

That may be true of straight X, but OSF/Motif sure *seems* to take a
few ideas from the Mac user interface!

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