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From: roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Xerox sues Apple!
Keywords: lawsuit over original WIMP ui... at last
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Date: 18 Dec 89 17:06:53 GMT
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In article <7326@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
> "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.

	What does popping the active window to the front have to do with a
one-button mouse?  I don't see any reason why, with a one-button mouse,
you can't do suntools style window activation.
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