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Article #26270Mac/Sun/..., windows, mice, ... - YAWN
From: Nick Rothwell
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 1988 14:04
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 1988 14:04
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I've been flicking through this Mac interface vs. Sun interface, 1 vs. 3 button mouse, true vs. pseudo multi-tasking, debate for ages. I'm about to buy a Mac+. Yes, the screen is small, Yes, it only has one mouse button, Yes, it uses a menu bar, No, it isn't "real" multitasking, No, it isn't as fast at graphics as an Amiga, No, it isn't colour, ... But it's *perfect* for what I need at home. I feel this is all apple-n-oranges stuff. A Mac isn't a Sun. But I don't want a Sun at home... Any chance of this being the last word? Thought not :-) I *am* interested by the comments, philosophy of interfaces and insights into programming guidelines, and so on, but the to-and-fro criticism is a bit of a waste of bandwidth... Nick. -- Nick Rothwell, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh. nick%lfcs.ed.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk <Atlantic Ocean>!mcvax!ukc!lfcs!nick ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ...while the builders of the cages sleep with bullets, bars and stone, they do not see your road to freedom that you build with flesh and bone.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!ukc!its63b!csnjr From: csnjr@its63b.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.windows.misc Subject: Mac/Sun/..., windows, mice, ... - YAWN Message-ID: <1064@its63b.ed.ac.uk> Date: 10 Mar 88 14:04:06 GMT References: <1744@ssc-vax.UUCP> Reply-To: nick%ed.lfcs@uk.ac.ucl.cs.nss Organization: LFCS, University of Edinburgh Lines: 32 Keywords: Mac, Sun, mice, windows, multitasking, ..., ... Summary: Does this really matter?