Re: GUI.8BIT

[edward@pro-ren.cts.com (Edward Floden)]

In <myoung.2kyv@sempco.UUCP> myoung@sempco.UUCP (Mike Young) writes:

>I received a program from cco.caltech.edu called gui.8bit, and found it to be
>an interesting Mac-like interface.  However, I saw that under one of the menus,
>there was an Apple Inc. copyright.  Is this program public domain?  Has it
>recently been released into the public domain?  

I can't say for certain what you've got, but it's probably one of two items:
(1) a desktop-like program launcher called "MouseDesk", which is a commercial
program that's been long out-of-production, or (2) a file found in the Apple
MouseText Toolkit, a developmental 8-bit desktop/MouseText designer that never
got beyond the beta release.

In either case, and seeing that there's a copyright on the product, whatever
it is, I doubt that it's public domain now. Can you provide any further
details on this desktop, such as the contents of the menus, or what it
actually can perform?