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John Dvorak in one issue of PC Magazine last year wrote:

"Japan produces more engineers per capita than any other civilized nation
 in the world. USA on the other hand produces more lawyers than is
 civilized for any nation in the world."   :-).

*He attributed the disability of USA to compete with the Japanese to the
 fact that USA is spending too much time screwing around with lawsuits
 than producing really useful products. Somehow, I agree with that to a
 certain extent.


I am a long time PC user who just got a MAC recently (because someone
flock it off cheap). Just figured out how to select and use Multi-Finder
last night after getting instruction from a MAC expert. He is a MAC
dealer and he told me that most of the time, Finder is recommended for
a customer instead of Multi-Finder. Why ? Because Multi-Finder is too
confusing. (ps. For the uninitiated, in Finder you can only run one
program at one time, if you want to do something else, you have to quit
the program to start up that something else. In Multi-Finder, you can
do what MS Windows had been doing since version 1.03 --- ie. run
multiple programs and switch among them at will).

Personally, I like MS Windows more than Multi-Finder because in MS Windows,
each program has its own menu bar. In Multi-Finder, when you switch
program, the menu bar on top changes. This is perhaps what makes the
use of Multi-Finder more confusing ??? This is just personal opinion, but
does this means that someone could sue Apple if they decided later down
the road that each program in the MAC should have its own menu bar :-) ??

Anyway ....., I was just told that Apple stole the idea for Multi-Finder
from a guy who wrote SWITCHER. Back in the days when Finder can only
run one program at a time, some guy wrote a SWITCHER program to flip
among multiple programs which is what the Multi-Finder is doing now.
And the flipping is done by clicking an icon sitting in the top right
hand corner of the screen (the same one is found in the Multi-Finder).

.... and come to think of it, all these are not too unlike what the
program SIDEKICK (an MS-DOS context switching desktop management
program from BORLAND INTERNATIONAL) does.  So, who is copying who ?  :-(
Should BORLAND sue Apple ?  ;-).



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