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- From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
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- Subject: Completing tasks under the desktop metaphor
- Re: Where the mac really wins
- Message-ID: <id.5JYV._AH@ferranti.com>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 23:50:37 GMT
- References: <1992Dec2.220745.1835@global.hacktic.nl> <BzBEGJ.C58@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <18386@borg.cs.unc.edu>
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- In article <18386@borg.cs.unc.edu> lari@strauss.cs.unc.edu (Humayun Lari) writes:
- > Um, closing a window is a much more common act than quitting an application.
-
- In general, quitting an application is a special case of closing a window: it
- is the case where you are closing the last document window open under that
- application. I realise that the Mac originally did not provide for the
- concurrent execution of multiple applications, thus the concurrent display
- under the window system of documents that require different applications
- to edit, but with a modern operating system and a reasonably efficient
- application launch and context switch there's no reason not to tie applications
- to documents, and I think most modern window systems do that.
-
- Personally, I find the Mac model where applications have this strange undead
- life after you've quit working on the file associated with them quite
- disturbing. I feel it VERY strongly violates the desktop metaphor, and
- I'm frequently caught out when there's some application lying around in
- the background eating up memory with no visual indication that it exists.
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