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In article <39765@apple.Apple.COM>, keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin) writes:
> Something
> like SpInside Mac is *nice*, but you don't need it to program your computer.
> People have managed to scrape by without it for years now.

Also, a lot of this stuff is definitely in the "it's a prototype but it
might be useful" category.  I've played with SpInside Mac, and frankly,
it's not all that useful in real life, although it makes a real nice CD-ROM
demo.  I'm back to using my 5 volumes of Inside Mac and 3 notebooks full
of Tech Notes, for the following reasons (among others):

 - Size

   Paper docs don't take up any disk space (I wouldn't advise trying to
   use SpInside Mac from the CD-ROM--it's too slow).  Of course, the stack
   doesn't take much shelf space, either :-).

 - Speed

   I can flip between pages much more quickly than I can flip around in
   SpInside Mac, especially if I use little scraps of paper (or pens,
   more often than not) to mark the sections I need at the moment.  Part
   of this is familiarity--after so many years of programming the Mac, I
   know IM pretty well, and usually know where to find what I need, and
   I'm not bad at remembering when there's a tech note about something.

 - Availability

   Unless you've got an extra Mac on your desk, it's awfully hard to look
   up stuff while you're sitting in TMON or MACSBUG...  SADE would
   alleviate ths problem if it were faster, and if buggy programs never
   scrogged MultiFinder...

 - Visual Appearance

   Having everything in Monaco 9 with separate buttons for any illustrations
   is not my idea of an effective style of presentation.

Sticking with my paper IM,
--
Amanda Walker
InterCon Systems Corporation

"Dans la vie y'a des hauts pis des bas,
des choses qui sont et d'autres qui ne sont pas."
	--Lucie Blue Tremblay