Re: Finder suggestion

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From: Barry Margolin
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1987 20:11

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The suggestion that the Finder's Shutdown command should be in the
File menu, for consistency with other applications' Quit commands,
reminds me of a question I've had for a long time: why is Quit in the
File menu in the first place?  It has nothing to do with files, except
that if you haven't written out your files it will ask whether it
should do so, which I think of as a safety net, not part of the
defined function.  It doesn't confuse me (in a typical day I use four
different operating systems (Mac, Symbolics, Unix, and Multics), and
have no trouble switching) but I remember my parents being confused
when I was teaching them to use the Mac.

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Barry Margolin
Thinking Machines Corp.

barmar@think.com
seismo!think!barmar

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Subject: Re: Finder suggestion
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