> Interestingly enough, there were a couple other GUIs out at about this time
> that also had such features, but Apple didn't sue them. Anybody remember the
> GEM desktop or the GEOShell (or something like that)? Both of these
> duplicated the look and feel of the Mac pretty closely, including windows
> with folder icons, a single menubar, overlapping windows, etc. The GEO even
> had scalable fonts like True Type, and genuine overlapping windows, i.e.
> windows from multiple apps overlapping each other in one, seamless desktop.
>
> As to why they were never sued, one can only speculate. :-)
Actually they did sue. Apple came down on DRI like a tonne of bricks and
Atari's next version of GEM was hopelessly neutered.
See http://escience.anu.edu.au/lecture/cg/Import/GUI_Timeline/index.en.html
under "1986".
Ben.
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