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From: peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: DRI agrees to change GEM
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Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 14:01:05 EST
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> bearing on the legal issues, but from the standpoint of Apple's
> motivation, I find it easy to believe that they would not want what I
> (and apparently, they) consider a second-rate "desktop-style" system
> to be the standard on many machines.  No one is going to switch to a
> Macintosh if they are led to believe that GEM is typical of a state of
> the art desktop system.

I'd believe this if they didn't say they were going after the AMIGA next (which
they have been quoted as saying in InfoWorld). The AMIGA is in no way a bad
implementation of the desktop metaphor. Of course no-one is going to switch
to a Mac once they get their hands on an AMIGA either. I just wish the AMIGA
icons didn't look so hokey. Time to pull out the old binary editor.
-- 
Name: Peter da Silva
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