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To: Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net>
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Subject: Re: Out of Box experience (Was: Re: How is selection made of what goes into CDrom?) 
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Date: Mon, 01 Dec 1997 02:29:49 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> I was thinking if you're going to design it from scratch, why not detach
> the UI from the rest of it from the beginning, making it easier for some X
> die-hard (read: me, or someone else with too much free time) to make an
> X-ish (or even {Web|interface-of-the-month-ish) interface for it.

Because if I try to do that, I've got to take time out to *implement*
all the interface library objects on at least the ncurses end of
things vs being able to simply grab TurboVision and use all of its
objects right off the bat. :)

					Jordan