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Article #44258Re: Fwd: Xerox - Apple Computer Suit -2
From: gillies
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1989 17:39
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1989 17:39
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> I remember hearing that in System 7.0, printers will appear on the
> desktop like a drive. To print a file, you'll just drag it to the
> printer. This is the way you print documents on the STAR.
The amusing thing about STAR is that the user interface is *too
consistent*. If you spend months composing a document, then "move" it
to the printer, it gets printed AND DELETED. After all, you said
"move", not "copy" it to the printer!
This hits novices all the time; I remember the User Interface people
as being too stubborn to change their semantics.
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Also, about "stealing" people. A friend once put it this way,
"After a while, the muck you've coded builds up around you, and you
flounder in your self-made mess. At some point, programmers yearn for
a clean sheet of paper. About the only way to get one is to quit and
go to a new company."
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