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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
- Subject: Re: Where the mac really wins
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- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 21:43:01 GMT
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- In article <ibhan.723754723@husc10> ibhan@husc10.harvard.edu (Ishir Bhan) writes:
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- >>The whole Macintosh mentality reminds me of the touchy-feely Montessori
- >>elementary education I was forced to endure. I'm tired of all this
- >>nonsense about "using what you learn with one application with another
- >>application". About all Excel and Illutrator have in common is file
- >>save/load, print, and font selection. They are two different types of
- >>applications, and doing anything beyond the tiny set of things they have
- >>in common in either requires knowlege about the particular application.
- >
- >They are different programs. However, the interface is consistant. You
- >clearly failed to understand what the point of this was. The point is
- >that if you learn one word processor, most commands should be similar to
- >another one. Likewise for a graphics program. I find that because of
- >this, I can use many programs on the Mac that I'd never touched before
- >fairly well. Not so with Windoze and DOS.
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- Right. I've got MacDraw II down pat. Done lots of work in it. So
- I fire up Illustrator. No problem eh! !!!!!!!WRONGO!!!!! After getting
- enormously frustrated I went back and spent a couple hours reading
- the manual. The two programs work so differently it makes a mockery
- of what you've just written.
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- >I've
- >never seen a lock on the menu bar. This just proves you don't know much
- >about the Mac. Why don't you learn how to use one, use one for a while,
- >and then get back to us with a valid opinion.
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- I'm beginning to wonder how often _you_ use macs. You've never seen the
- tiny little padlock on the window bar? Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.....
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