Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ecsvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!ecsvax!dgary From: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc,net.micro.atari,net.micro.mac,net.micro.amiga Subject: Re: DRI agrees to change GEM Message-ID: <656@ecsvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 09:29:21 EST Article-I.D.: ecsvax.656 Posted: Wed Oct 30 09:29:21 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Nov-85 06:30:03 EST References: <3208@nsc.UUCP<1196@vax1.fluke.UUCP> <3226@nsc.UUCP> Organization: Duke U Comp Ctr Lines: 24 Xref: watmath net.micro.pc:5747 net.micro.atari:1535 net.micro.mac:3206 net.micro.amiga:539 > . . . 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 USENET: {seismo,decvax,ihnp4,akgua,etc.}!mcnc!ecsvax!dgary