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- From: flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal)
- Subject: Re: GUIs Considered Harmful
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.145426.15739@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
- References: <1992Aug26.175124.19683@twg.com>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 18:54:26 GMT
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- david@twg.com (David Herron) writes:
- >So why not spend some of this new `power' on making the user interface nicer?
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- Some of us would like to have ACCESS to this new power, rather than having it
- used up by poor system design. What's the use in buying a fast machine if when
- you run the current version of the operating system, it's going to end up being
- slower than your old machine running the old version of the operating system?
-
- 'course I'm also speaking of abominations like, well let's not name names right
- now, which seem to use up a huge amount of cpu power somewhere, not clearly on
- any user-interface improvements. But I'm also speaking of modern Mac frills.
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