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- From: jahonen@cs.joensuu.fi (Jarmo Ahonen)
- Subject: Re: DOS not operating system, film at 11. : -)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.110335.17555@cs.joensuu.fi>
- Organization: University of Joensuu
- References: <92308.115001MICHAELB@UCF1VM.BITNET> <1992Nov11.225957.10025@microsoft.com> <1992Nov13.215338.27815@grebyn.com> <1992Nov14.022950.29092@itsmail1.hamilton.edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 11:03:35 GMT
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- jmalloy@itsmail1.hamilton.edu (Joseph T. Malloy) writes:
-
- >Of course, I have my own theory about GUI's for the average person. I
- >proceed from the observed fact (in my experience on the average liberal
- >arts college campus) that most people neither need nor really want
- >multitasking. Most people do one thing, stop, do another, an go back,
- >perhaps, to the first job. (I'm not suggesting this is the *best* way
- >to computer, only that this is how most real live end-users work).
-
- It may be that those people have learned not to use multitasking because
- there has been no multitasking earlier on. I saw some time ago how *fast*
- people learned not to start looking out from the window when their big
- spreadsheets were calculated. Those people learned to write their FrameMaker
- documents during the calculations.
- I forgot to tell, they were PC users who were provided with Suns.
- It depends, of course, what they are doing, but I do believe that people
- find the best way for them very fast if they are provided with the possibility
- of choice.
-
- >What does a multitasking GUI offer? Heck, what with all those cute
- >little pictures and WYSIWYG screens and wallpaper and so on, well, your
- >computer looks like it doing something even when you're not!
-
- Good point :-).
-
- >jmalloy@hamilton.edu
-
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- Jarmo J. Ahonen
- Computing Centre, Lappeenranta University of Technology, P.O.Box 20,
- SF-53851 Lappeenranta, Finland. email: Jarmo.Ahonen@lut.fi
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