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- From: jbailey@world.std.com (jim bailey)
- Subject: Re: pc and mac: was RE: 486 and mac benchmarks
- Message-ID: <BzAELM.It2@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <1992Dec10.034521.14248@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> <Bz32yE.6KK@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <Bz5uwI.LJ5@world.std.com> <BzABtJ.E8y@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 06:12:58 GMT
- Lines: 58
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- ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
-
- >In article <Bz5uwI.LJ5@world.std.com> jbailey@world.std.com (jim bailey) writes:
- >>ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
-
- >>>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).
- >>
- >>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.
-
- >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?
-
- I don't know. Perhaps your WordPerfect isn't set up to live on a server?
- Apple has some guidelines for this but I wouldn't expect a PC company
- like WordPerfect corp to do Mac applications well. It is possible to
- write network friendly apps on the Mac.
-
- >>You also don't need any weird inits to stick things in the Apple menu,
- >>you only need system 7.
-
- >Then why did they have to stick BeHierarchic in the Extensions folder?
-
- You didn't have to stick BeHierarchich in the extensions folder. This adds
- hierarchical menus to the Apple menu, not adding things to the Apple menu
- in general. There is no requirement to use BeHierarchic.
-
- >>> How about .....? Windows is simply
- >>>>to painful to use for many things.
-
- >>>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.
-
- >>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.
-
- >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.
-
- So, because it is different than the Windows default, it is no good? This
- leads back to the original point. The Mac has a different way of doing
- things, perhaps not better or worse than windows, but you can't reasonably
- complain that the Mac is inferior because it does things different from
- windows.
-