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- From: dunham@mpd.tandem.com (Jerry Dunham)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Gem Support Dieing?
- Message-ID: <2256@devnull.mpd.tandem.com>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 20:03:37 GMT
- References: <memo.578043@cix.compulink.co.uk>
- Sender: news@devnull.mpd.tandem.com
- Reply-To: dunham_jerry@tandem.com (Jerry Dunham)
- Organization: Tandem Computers, Inc.
- Lines: 17
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- In article <memo.578043@cix.compulink.co.uk> apelled@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
- >
- >GEM on the PC was severely crippled due to some law suit with Apple. Like
- >windows can't be sized etc.. How Atari got round this one i don't know.
- >All the GUIs around today owe alot to Apple even if they don't admit it.
-
- And nearly everything you know and love regarding the Apple Macintosh WIMP
- interface was derived from the Xerox Star and work done by Xerox PARC long
- before the first Mac saw the light of day. It is not a coincidence that
- Alan Kay worked at PARC for many years before coming to Apple to assist
- with the development of the Mac for Steve Jobs.
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- Jerry Dunham dunham_jerry@tandem.com
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