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- From: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari)
- Subject: Re: VirtSpace v2.6 is now available
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- References: <1992Nov7.090226.2482@cubetech.com> <BxEvLv.Muz@csugrad.cs.vt.edu>
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 20:29:00 GMT
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- In article <BxEvLv.Muz@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> jaker@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Jake Rose) writes:
- >I hesitate to point this out, but autoscrolling has been built into
- >AmigaDOS since 2.0 came out three years ago. This isn't a flame against
- >NeXT, but a claim against the use of the term "innovative" with respect
- >to autoscrolling. In fact, Commodore-Amiga uses the term "autoscrolling"
- >to describe its feature which performs the same function.
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- So??
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- And the Apple Macintosh had it as far back as the 512k Mac machines.
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- The Amiga still doesn't support multiple displays, either..
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- *The Mac had a large number of products that added on external, full page
- displays. Most or all of these card/monitor combinations had autoscrolling
- virtual desktops, with the autoscrolling handled much the same way it is on
- the Amiga--just change two pointer values...
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