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- From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: RE-MACS COST TOO MUCH (NOT!)
- Message-ID: <ewright.714955774@convex.convex.com>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 22:49:34 GMT
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- In <ajross.714945490@husc9> ajross@husc9.harvard.edu (Andrew Ross) writes:
-
- >I was actually refering to the System 7 upgrade. The finder went through
- >some major changes (to say the least); and yet apple seems to feel that
- >handing it free to someone with only online docs is an acceptable means of
- >distributing an OS. This is another matter of taste, but I WANT printed
- >documentation for my software.
-
- This is the basic problem. You can't even *conceive* of an operating
- system that doesn't *require* documentation. You've been conditioned,
- from working with PCs, to believe that power and complexity are the
- same thing. They aren't. They're opposites.
-
- >This is over-rated. In my experience, Mac software is no more consistent
- >than most windows software;
-
- Well, if that's true, you haven't actually looked at any Macintosh
- software. To take the simplest possible example, all Macintosh
- programs use the same command-keys for cut, paste, and copy men items
- (cmd-X, V, and C, respectively). Every Windows program I have uses
- *different* keystrokes for those. Moreover, the Macintosh command-keys
- can be accomplished in a single keystroke; Windows programs usually
- require two or three. Likewise, every Macintosh program uses cmd-O
- to open a file, cmd-S to save a file, and cmd-Q to quit a progam.
- In Windows, again, it depends on the individual program. Windows
- programmers can't even agree on the *name* of the quit command. In
- some Windows programs, it's "quit"; in others, it's "exit"; and in
- still others, it's "close."
-
- >Fair enough. Again, this is out of my league. (By the way, what exactly
- >IS Macintax).
-
- Macintax is, surpise, a *tax* package. Since you couldn't pick
- this up from the name, I guess I'd better break down and tell
- you that it was developed first on the Macintosh. Mac...in...tax,
- get it?
-