peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) (03/21/91)
In article <1991Mar19.015116.11764@hubcap.clemson.edu> ddyer@hubcap.clemson.edu (Doug Dyer) writes: > I thought it sucked. True, you can use a keyboard well, but for using > MW as an operating system its terrible Oh yes, the operating system sucks canal water. I don't think anyone has any illusions about that. But that's not what Apple is suing them over... they're suing them over the user interface... and I'm saying the user interface is not only innovative, it's superior to what Apple is pushing. (nah, that can't be the reason for the lawsuit) > drawers don't represent directories,...). They didn't in the original Mac O/S either, if you remember. > Its also funny to click on the > close box and get a menu, although thats reaching... That's sort of X-windows like. In fact, that's what the first UNIX windowing system I ever saw, under Unisoft UNIX on an Optimum-5 68000-based box many years before Microsoft Windows was a gleam in Bill Gates' eye. Perhaps they violated MIT's look-n-feel. :-> -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' <peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.