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to: Gary Britt
from: John Cuccia
date: 2005-12-03 19:16:38
subject: Re: Linux failed to take over desktop

From: John Cuccia 

On Sat, 3 Dec 2005 18:29:28 -0500, "Gary Britt"
 wrote:

>Does Mac OS use more than a one button mouse yet?

Yes, I plugged a wheel mouse into Anthony's laptop and was able to use both
mouse buttons and the scroll wheel immediately.  The OS just accepted it
and use it, without comment.

>I went to that link and looked at a couple of screen shots.  Is it just me
>or does the Mac OS-X icons and backgrounds have the same kind of look and
>feel as XP's interface went to??  Which was first XP or OS-X?

It doesn't look or feel XP to me.

XP's GUI was probably first, but I think OS/X is based on one of the BSD
unixes, so it's guts have been around as long or longer than XP/NT.

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