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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
- Subject: Re: pc and mac: was RE: 486 and mac benchmarks
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- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 05:12:54 GMT
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- In article <Bz5uwI.LJ5@world.std.com> jbailey@world.std.com (jim bailey) writes:
- >ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
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- >>At least in Windows I don't have to dig through six layers of folders
- >>just to launch an app. Every Mac power user I know has to have some
- >>kind of workaround (aliases - try explaining those to a novice -
- >>launchers, weird inits that stick things under the Apple menu, you
- >>name it).
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- >In general you should be launching from a document, then you don't
- >care where the actual application is. Actually always launching
- >the application is a holdover from less sophisticated shells. If you
- >spent a little time unlearning bad habits and a little time learning
- >the mac way of doing things this problem disappears.
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- Then tell me why about 70% of the time in our clusters when you click
- on a WordPerfect 2.1 document file it comes up "Application is Busy
- Or Missing"? Does it have to do with something about Wordperfect
- living on a server?
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- >You also don't need any weird inits to stick things in the Apple menu,
- >you only need system 7.
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- Then why did they have to stick BeHierarchic in the Extensions folder?
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- >> How about .....? Windows is simply
- >>>to painful to use for many things.
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- >>So are Macs... what do you do when your numerous drive icons are
- >>buried under a pile of windows? Shouldn't they have designed it to
- >>pop the icons up to the top when you bring Finder to the fore-
- >>ground? The Systems people have been relying too much on 10 year
- >>old ergonomic studies for the desktop.
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- >Option click on the desktop. Useful if you have two few monitors and
- >too many open applications. There also is a really useful freeware app
- >called applicon that allows you to have an Icon for each open app and
- >a hot spot to pull the Icons to the top.
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- Oh great.. Windows has this by default. What they really need to do is
- use the top menu bar as an appdock like the Next.
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