Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!Apple.COM!lsr From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Fwd: Xerox - Apple Computer Suit -2- Message-ID: <5833@internal.Apple.COM> Date: 18 Dec 89 20:07:30 GMT Sender: usenet@Apple.COM Organization: Objects-R-Us, Apple Computer, Inc. Lines: 17 References: <1989Dec17.184851.7635@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> <1786@ultb.isc.rit.edu> In article <1786@ultb.isc.rit.edu> jjw7384@ultb.isc.rit.edu (J.J. Wasilko) writes: > desktop like a drive. To print a file, you'll just drag it to the > printer. This is the way you print documents on the STAR. My recollection from reading about the Star is that to print a document you didn't drag it to a printer icon. Instead, you had to select the icon, hit the Move (or Copy) button, and select the printer icon. In fact, I don't think the Star user interface had any concept of dragging objects around. (One reference is "The Xerox Star: A Retrospecitve" in Sept 89 IEEE Computer.) Larry Rosenstein, Apple Computer, Inc. Object Specialist Internet: lsr@Apple.com UUCP: {nsc, sun}!apple!lsr AppleLink: Rosenstein1