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- From: vhs@rhein-main.de (Volker Herminghaus-Shirai)
- Subject: Re: NT: please define vapor.
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.192602.18707@rhein-main.de>
- Sender: vhs@rhein-main.de (Volker Herminghaus-Shirai)
- Reply-To: vhs@rhein-main.de
- References: <1992Sep10.134715.3545@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 19:26:02 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- In article <1992Sep10.134715.3545@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>
- cahalan@clouds.gsfc.nasa.gov (Robert F. Cahalan) writes:
-
- [second-nesting-level-quote deleted]
-
- > Steve,
- > One of the differences between an environment like the NeXT and the old
- > GUIs like Mac and Windows is that more of the "desktop" does NOT go away
- > when you launch an application (or two, or three). For example, as I
- > compose this posting, I can double-click any word and look it up in
- > Digital Webster, Oxford Quotations, or the Digital Librarian, all with a
- > quick keystroke or mouseclick or two. Or if we're talking math I can type
- > something like Factor[1-c^4], click "Evaluate to Plain Text" in the
- > Services menu, and get (1 - c)*(1 + c)*(1 + c^2). Applications are
- > automatically launched as needed to perform these services.
-
- [more deleted]
-
- I know someone who calls stuff like this "Information at your fingertips (TM)".
- His name is William Gates. Just once more, Steve Jobs is doing the great
- tech stuff, delivers it to the end user, it *just works*, while that self-
- proclaimed genius at MicroSloth is running around promising things he will
- not implement before everyone else has it running.
- The only, *only* thing this as*hole can do is sell.
-
- Volker - "Not-impressed-by-big-numbers-of-sold-sh*t" - Herminghaus-Shirai
-
- ...feeling much better now ;-)
- --
- Volker Herminghaus-Shirai (vhs@rhein-main.de)
-
- Computer industry: Industry in which the number of units sold of any
- given product is inversely proportional to its technical excellence.
- See also: MS-DOS, Windows, IBM-PC, X, QWERTY,
- 80x86, TrueType, Survival of the shittest.
-