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- From: tjhendry@queen.mcs.drexel.edu (Jonathan Hendry)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: Power PC/68060/Taligent/Windows NT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.032523.12058@netnews.noc.drexel.edu>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 03:25:23 GMT
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- In article <19984@mindlink.bc.ca> Daryl_Spitzer@mindlink.bc.ca (Daryl Spitzer)
- writes:
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- >
- > Not to disparage the NeXT, but the difference is that Cairo and Pink will
- > have a document-oriented interface (DOI).
- >
-
- That reminds me a little of the commercials for the "cab-forward" cars.
- "If you were building a chair, where would you put the feet?"
- "At the corners, in order to get the most stability."
- "That's why on the new blah blah we pushed the wheels out towards the
- corners."
-
- Wow. Wheels on the corners of a car. Ingenious.
-
- How are utilities handled in a document-oriented interface?
- I think I will prefer a tool-oriented interface like we have now.
-
- --
- Jonathan W. Hendry
- Drexel University College Of Information Studies
- Anderson Financial Systems "Programmer-in-Exile" :)
- tjhendry@queen.mcs.drexel.edu or jon@afs.com
- <set loose the marmosets!>
-