Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 (Fortune 01.1b1); site graffiti.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!ucbvax!ucdavis!lll-crg!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!shell!graffiti!peter From: peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc,net.micro.atari,net.micro.mac,net.micro.amiga Subject: Re: DRI agrees to change GEM Message-ID: <360@graffiti.UUCP> Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 14:01:05 EST Article-I.D.: graffiti.360 Posted: Fri Oct 25 14:01:05 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 28-Oct-85 03:39:57 EST References: <3208@nsc.UUCP> <1196@vax1.fluke.UUCP> Organization: The Power Elite, Houston, TX Lines: 17 Xref: watmath net.micro.pc:5726 net.micro.atari:1512 net.micro.mac:3158 net.micro.amiga:509 > 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 Graphic: `-_-' UUCP: ...!shell!{graffiti,baylor}!peter IAEF: ...!kitty!baylor!peter