Re: Cheerio Everyone!

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From: AM Stubbs
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 00:00

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Peter Gillett (p.gillett@argonet.co.uk) wrote:
: 
: Macs are 'not Acorn equipment' and are nearly as nice to use as Acorns, apart
: from the single button mouse!

The one thing about macs is their wondowful error messages. Only a mac can
come up with the likes of: 'Please insert disk 'Harddisk'', or 'Cannot
delete file because a file of that name already exists' (When it clearly
doesn't, not even in the bin) and I have had a few other little gems I
can't remember right now. At least windoze just admits to having no
idea what has gone wrong (not to mention eject buttons on the floppy disc 
drive!).

Having said that, MacOS itself, when it is actually working, isn't /that/
bad. And the one button mouse doesn't really upset the user, though I
suspect it makes designing the programs a little harder for the
programmer. I keep trying to press the right side of the mouse button on
the macs in uni, and the one huge button doesn't seem to mind. Sometimes
it even does what I expected! It does crash lots though.

-- 
Andrew Stubbs
3rd Year Computer Science
as6966@bristol.ac.uk
http://www.fen.bris.ac.uk/students/as6966/Programs

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From: as6966@harrier.fen.bris.ac.uk (AM Stubbs)
Subject: Re: Cheerio Everyone!
Date: 1998/11/29
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