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From: jnh@ece-csc.UUCP (Joseph Nathan Hall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: System 8.0: no more DA's.
Message-ID: <3851@ece-csc.UUCP>
Date: 8 Dec 88 22:23:36 GMT
References: <552@unocss.UUCP>
Reply-To: jnh@ece-csc.UUCP (Joseph Nathan Hall)
Organization: North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
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In article <552@unocss.UUCP> dent@unocss.UUCP (Dave Caplinger) writes:
>[ This may be rambling, but has anyone else seen DEC's XUI (X-Windows User
>Interface)?  Why aren't Apple's lawyers having a conniption over that one? ]

Primarily because Apple and DEC are in bed together on this one.  Don't
you remember the networking deal between Apple and DEC a while back?  What
did DEC get out of that ... ?

I dunno.  What would YOU be willing to trade in return for the right to
double-click in your user interface?

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