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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:57:12 EST
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- From: Judy Boss <boss@cwis.unomaha.edu>
- Subject: Re: DOS BACKUP
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- I can't help but think this is an enormously oversimplified
- concept of "getting on with work" and the consequent "demise of
- DOS machines." If I scan a text file and want to do further
- work on it, I want my word processor opened, not the OCR program;
- and after I use my word processor on it, I may want to open the
- concordance program, not the word processor again. In other words,
- I often run a single file through a series of applications and would
- be extremely frustrated if the machine kept opening the previous
- application instead of the next one.
-
- Judy Boss
- boss@cwis.unomaha.edu
-
- > One of the stated purposes of the "Macintosh" concept
- > in the first place is to shield the user from the loading and
- > minipulation of the system. This is so the person using the
- > computer can get on with work, rather than having to crak up
- > the sysytem every time. Even work is much easier to do on the
- > Mac, if people would convert to it. For just one example only;
- > if you have already written and saved a file and need to work
- > on it again, simply double-click on it's file Icon and the Mac
- > automatically opens the program/application that created it.
- > That to this point can not physically be done on DOS machines.
- > That one simply fact alone if the people using computers, and
- > creating software would realize this then the demise of DOS
- > machines would be eminient.
- >
- > Phil M. Jones
- > pjones@rvgs.vak12ed.edu
- >
-
-
- Submitted to EDTECH by: Judy Boss boss@cwis.unomaha.edu
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