>
>The reality is, all these nice UI features people have grown to love in
>OS 9 are not something that Apple tossed together in 6 months, or even a
>year... they are the culmination of work that started before the release
>of the Lisa. I don't know exactly what date Apple stared work on the GUI
>OS, but figure at least 1981. That means, the OS 9 UI was developed over
>the course of 20 years. And most of the great features that were added
>weren't an Apple invention, they were made by 3rd party people, and Apple
>either ripped them off or (more often) licensed the code.
this *IS* my point entirely
OS X throws a good bit of 20 years of UI design and user feedback - out
the (preverbial) window
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Chip Scheide Systems Coordinator
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
"And as a man, who is attached to a prostitute,
is unfitted to choose or judge of a wife, so any
prepossession in favour of a rotten constitution of
government will disable us from discerning a good one."
Thomas Paine - Common Sense, Feb 14 1776
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