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- From: aw@camcon.co.uk (Alain Waha)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: Power PC/68060/Taligent/Windows NT
- Message-ID: <27727@io.camcon.co.uk>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 09:58:42 GMT
- References: <19984@mindlink.bc.ca> <ARO.93Jan27163659@csthor.aber.ac.uk>
- Organization: Cambridge Consultants Ltd., Cambridge, UK
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- >Is this an advantage? What is a document oriented interface, anyway?
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- What the mac should have been in the first place: You work on a document using
- a range of tools made available to you by the applications. Every application
- work on the same document, instead of each application having each their own
- document. This is similar to what Clarisworks does for example, where you
- can edit a graphic, spreadsheet, text etc... on the same page.
-
- This is made possible by the object oriented nature of the system software.
- Each seperate element in your document is an object with given attributes.
- The tools can operate on specific objects, wherever they are. Hence the
- end of the poxy graphic editor in Word, or the poxy text editor in Draw or
- the forever multiplying dictionaries.
-
- Click on an object, and all the appropriate tools you have purchased (as part
- of an application) become available... In other words, you create your
- own custom integrated software as known in the current paradigm, by buying the
- tools with the function you specifically require.
-
- This is my view of how it will work & should work anyway.
-
- Alain
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