On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Tim May wrote:
> --Xerox PARC had overlapping windows. Apple used the 1979
> demonstration to redirect it's nonoverlapping windows to be
> overlapping. This is detailed in some of the histories of PARC,
> including "Dealers in Lightning."
Hmm, yes, now that I read back,
That's ok, I still got you on the Apple "stealing" from Xerox bit. :)
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Lizard wrote:
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> At 12:55 PM -0700 6/11/00, Tim May wrote:
> >Apple would no doubt fail if IBM and Motorola stopped making PPC
> >chips. This doesn't mean the government has any constitutional or
> >moral authority to force IBM and Motorola to stay in this business.
>
> Which leads me to this q
Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
>
> > You confuse market share, e.g., the decision by most consumers to
> > choose Windows over OS/2 or Plan 9 or DrDOS, etc.
>
> How are the consumers who can't cope with the Web and have to use the AOL
> version meant to be able to learn UNIX or Plan-9?
I take it y
Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
>
> And that is why UNIX deserves to be thrown in the trash can. It is NOT a
> good operating system. It is poorly designed, buggy and baddly documented.
> Read the UNIX hater's manual for chapter and verse. Its success had
> everything to the fact it was once given aw
