Xerox Star

From: Tom Owad <owad_at_applefritter.com>
Date: Mon May 28 10:07:56 2001

>Wish I'd seen that. Yeah, ViewPoint/Star/GlobalView (whatever you want to
>call it) is still a long way ahead of what we've ended up with. I usually
>use GVWin on the laptop for docs etc, they only get converted to Word format
>if they have to be sent outside :-) Admittedly it's only become usable since
>the hardware has been fast enough to support it - a 15 minute boot time for
>VP on a 6085 is next to useless, but it boots in 20 seconds or so on a
>400MHz laptop. I wish I could get hold of XDE (Tajo), that would sit very
>nicely in another volume of my GVWin virtual disk...

Is GVWin or GlobalView still available anywhere or does anybody have a
copy for sale? I'd really like to take a look at it.

Thanks,
Tom

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Received on Mon May 28 2001 - 10:07:56 BST