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- From: singh@wwa.com (singh)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: MUI
- Date: 4 Mar 1996 02:36:42 GMT
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- In article <4h22lr$1d8@ns.hookon.be>, Christophe Heereman
- <Paul.Heereman@hookon.be> wrote:
-
- > Hi,
- >
- > who can tell how MUI works,what it does,which pro and contra it has,why
- > it's better (?) than GUI,etc.If you know URLs or anything else on the net,
- > please send them to me.I want to know everything about MUI! thanks.
- >
- >
- > Christophe Heereman,Toffel
-
- If you have a very very fast cpu MUI is okay I guess. On my 3000/040 it's
- usuable; on my brothers 2000/020 it's as slick as half dried rubber
- cement. I tried the new version along with the demo version of Ibrowse on
- the A2000/020 and it was hideously cumbersome. On the other hand,
- programs like Thor and AmiFTP are MUI free and are really pleasant to use
- on an 020. Personally I don't know enough about boopsi gadgets etc to
- explain why it is so damn slow and kludgy, since ClassAct does alot of the
- same things but much faster/cleaner. It really boggles my mind why with a
- nice, small, fast OS like the Amiga so many programmers want to tether it
- to an interface as sluggish an MUI. Many many users still use their 020
- and 030 machines, and on most apps that don't involve heavy image
- rendering, these machines are just fine tools...then along comes this
- interface that essentially spits in the face of those users, and they are
- many. It's a cruel twist of fate that MUI has become so popular -- I
- dunno, maybe programmers are too lazy to write their own boopsi gadgets?
- It beats me, but all in all, after using MUI on my brother's 2000/020 it
- makes me feel sorry -- I always thought the amiga community was the one
- group that took care not to make older machines obsolete. The "hey if
- they user feels the interface is kludgy, he or she needs more horsepower"
- theory is way too MicroSoft/Intel for my liking. :(
-
- Just one girls opinion.....
-
- WaveGirl
-