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- From: pricec@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (price carl wayne)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: MACS COST TOO MUCH (NOT!)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep08.204918.2686@CS.ORST.EDU>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 20:49:18 GMT
- Article-I.D.: CS.1992Sep08.204918.2686
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- From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
-
-
- >>Just ALT-click on the disk icon title and type something you like. That
- >>only works in WPS but in a command line window nobody would like to use
- >>a drive name like "Price Carl Wayne`s floppy"
-
- >So, if WPS is great, why do you need a command-line window? For that
- >matter, if WPS is so great (and intuitive), why don't you call it by
- >a real name, instead of yet another TLA (three-letter acronym)?
-
- Edward,
- I have already explained to you via e-mail that WPS has a name and
- it is the WorkPlace Shell, and that the acronym is for convience. I
- have also explained that the name of a program, shell, interface, whatever
- in no way affects the performance of that program, etc. I have also
- explained that some individuals like the CLI and in some cases it is
- a better alternative than the GUI (anytime the CPU needs to be used
- intensivly then a GUI will take processor time from your app)
-
- I am begining to believe that you are just spreading FUD to amuse yourself.
-
- --Carl
-
- --
- Carl W. Price * * Work keeps us from three evils: *
- Computer Engineering Student * * boredom, vice, and need. *
- Oregon State University * * *
- pricec@prism.cs.orst.edu * * ---Voltaire *
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