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From: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady)
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Subject: Re: DRI agrees to change GEM
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Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 09:29:21 EST
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> . . .  While I do
> not like the layout of the [GEM] toolkit, . . . it is in many ways
> similar to that of the Macintosh.  The appearence of the desktop is the
> largest similarity to the Mac, and is the only thing in question.
> 
> . . . I agree with
> a previous poster that Apple would be better off allowing desk-top
> metaphor products on non-Mac hardware.  Such a strategy would lead to
> wide acceptance of such user interface management systems.
> --  Tom Mackey

Of course, it was the Xerox Star, and not the Lisa or Mac, that first
introduced this sort of interface to the commercial market.  (The most
noticeable difference between the Star and the Mac is the "wait" cursor
being an hour glass on the Star and a wristwatch on the Mac.)  As for
this point-and-click becoming widely accepted, it is already in use on a
large number of workstation-class machines, and a presentation on future
directions offered by IBM in Rockville this past summer all but promised
that IBM would move in this direction as well.
-- 
D Gary Grady
Duke U Comp Center, Durham, NC  27706
(919) 684-3695
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