>> Well, again, Wikipedia asserts that the entire thing was done using 
>> 100% clean-room development,
> 
> Huh. Interesting. It's odd how they managed to get every little look 
> pretty much exact.

Well, if you get somebody to disassemble the code, write down the 
*exact* rendering parameters, and then give just the parameters to the 
guy who writes the new code, then you have "clean-room development", yet 
it looks pretty identical.

But take a closer look: Notepad has a line/column count. The command 
prompt has a different aspect ratio. A lot of icons are completely 
different. And so on. (And let's not forget, a lot of the very basic 
Windows stuff uses quite simple layouts, probably thrown together quite 
quickly.)

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