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- From: edmtl@alf.uib.no (Thor Legvold)
- Subject: ADC Fibermux Crossbow + LightWatch
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.121428.28384@alf.uib.no>
- Summary: Look + Feel conflict???
- Organization: University of Bergen, Norway
- Distribution: comp.sys.next.misc
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 12:14:28 GMT
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- Hi.
-
- We're considering buying a pair of Fibermux Crossbow hubs for our
- network (PC's + Macs). I was reading over the marketing hype,
- and when I saw the interface for the PC version of LightWatch I
- had to wonder if they had seen a NeXT before...talk about look
- and feel similarities... Even the Sun version looks like they
- got a few UI ideas from NeXT, although with Motif windows. But
- if you haven't seen it I'd recommend checking it out - it looks
- so much like NeXTStep (tm) that I wonder if they didn't develop it
- on a NeXT and then just write (copy) the interface for PC (this
- runs on DOS).
-
- So what does the net think? IS the sincerest form of flattery
- imitation...?
-
- Regards,
- Thor
- edmtl@fiol.uib.no
- -that which does not kill us makes us stronger. Nietzsche
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