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Re: ADTPro beta available

Michael J. Mahon wrote:

> And until it became a "movement", it was such a tiny blip on the
> radar that Windows could be blissfully unresponsive to it.  The
> move to NT was motivated by events (and people) quite distinct
> from Linux--though, of course, the OS design community is a small
> world...
>
> I think it might be safer to say that Linux had more influence
> on OS X, and MacOS had a significant influence on Win95's GUI.

I agree that MacOS influenced Win95, but OS X shows most of all its
NeXT underpinnings, which while quite a large evolution from OpenStep
4.2, is still essentially has the same design ethos.

Even though it's now a 'movement', Linux does not have the same
directed development style as commercial systems, and tends to evolve
in many directions, some of which are unified into a product by the
distributions.

Matt