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From: mark@arisia.Xerox.COM (Mark Weiser)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc
Subject: Re: Supposed intellectual property rights.
Message-ID: <1087@arisia.Xerox.COM>
Date: 12 Jun 89 05:14:46 GMT
References: <8906100346.AA02699@sugar-bombs.ai.mit.edu> <136@yaxkin.cs.utexas.edu>
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In article <136@yaxkin.cs.utexas.edu> kelvin@cs.utexas.edu (Kelvin Thompson) writes:
>[2]  In this universe, mouse-based computer/user interfaces are rather
>awkward....[To reiterate: I stipulate that these stories are fictional.]

This one certainly is certainly fictional.  Ever use the Smalltalk
interface, or Cedar, or Interlisp-D, or even STAR?  All pre-date Lisa
and Mac, none were "rather awkward", each continues to surpass existing PC
and Mac interfaces in some ways.  [And all of which is irrelevant to the
reasons for the Apple boycott, presumably.]

-mark