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From: Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@***.NEU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Off topic: Windows 95
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 15:24:11 -0400
>> I bought OS/2 Warp yesterday :).
> Just another clone of MacOS !!!

Not really.

But then, if you want to be pedantic, the Macintosh OS is just a clone
of the Xerox PARC GUI. In fact, the original versions of the Macintosh
and Lisa operating systems (System 32) were written by people who wrote
the PARC GUI.

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