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- From: asd@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Doug McClure)
- Subject: Re: VirtSpace v2.6 is now available
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- Organization: Purdue University
- References: <BxEyq6.G7p@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Nov9.224941.25909@news.media.mit.edu>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 02:18:17 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- In <1992Nov9.224941.25909@news.media.mit.edu> lacsap@plethora.media.mit.edu (Pascal Chesnais) writes:
-
- >In article <BxEyq6.G7p@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B.
- >Nicholson-Owens) writes:
- >> However, I think the use of the term is not to imply that Pinnacle
- >> Research came out with the idea and their product is the first to use it
- >on any
- >> platform, but instead to say that no other product on the NeXT has used
- >it, and
- >> therefore, VirtSpace v2.6 is the first to do so.
- >> --
- >> -- Jeff (jeffo@uiuc.edu)
- >> -- NeXTmail welcome
-
- >well that is not true either, ScreenScape has this functionality
- >for the NextDimension before VirtSpace existed...
-
- >So it is just marketting hype...
-
- Shesh, so friggen technical. How about someone disprove this then:
- Virtspace was the first available virtual window manager with
- auto-scrolling available for ALL NeXT's. Not just for a very small
- subset of them. I never even *heard* of ScreenScape before 3.0 rolled
- out, and I can't use it anyways. And I sure didn't see anybody
- telling folks to use ScreenScape to do this kinda thing when VirtSpace
- came out.
-
- So enough harping. Yes it isn't a new idea, yes it's 'innovativeness'
- is subject to debate. If you want to get technical, I doubt you will
- come up with an 'innovative' idea this year that someone hasn't
- thought up before you. But I'll bet you come up with plenty
- 'innovative' ideas that most no one has heard before. I won't tell
- anybody they aren't so 'innovative'. :)
-
- -dsm
-