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From: barmar@Think.COM
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Xerox sues Apple!
Keywords: lawsuit over original WIMP ui... at last
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Date: 18 Dec 89 04:30:44 GMT
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In article <7326@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>love it if Apple retained a few fascist look-n-feel copyrights on some of
>the stupider "innovations" they came up with for the Mac. They're easy to
>figure out: they're all based on Apple's brain-damaged choice of a single
>button mouse:
>	Popping the active window to the front.
>	Pull-down menus.
>	Double-clicking as a normal action.
>	And the one-button mouse itself.

At least the first and third are hardly Apple innovations.  I was
double-clicking on MIT Lisp Machines ten years ago (Symbolics later made
shift-click equivalent to double-click in their version of the software).
And MIT Lisp Machines and their descendents always bring the active window
to the front.  I think MIT adopted both of these features from Xerox
workstations (at the time, I think it was the Alto).
Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.

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