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In article <1992Sep10.134715.3545@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>  
cahalan@clouds.gsfc.nasa.gov (Robert F. Cahalan) writes:

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> Steve,
> One of the differences between an environment like the NeXT and the old  
> GUIs like Mac and Windows is that more of the "desktop" does NOT go away  
> when you launch an application (or two, or three).  For example, as I  
> compose this posting, I can double-click any word and look it up in  
> Digital Webster, Oxford Quotations, or the Digital Librarian, all with a  
> quick keystroke or mouseclick or two.  Or if we're talking math I can type  
> something like  Factor[1-c^4], click "Evaluate to Plain Text" in the  
> Services menu, and get (1 - c)*(1 + c)*(1 + c^2).  Applications are  
> automatically launched as needed to perform these services.

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I know someone who calls stuff like this "Information at your fingertips (TM)".
His name is William Gates. Just once more, Steve Jobs is doing the great
tech stuff, delivers it to the end user, it *just works*, while that self-
proclaimed genius at MicroSloth is running around promising things he will
not implement before everyone else has it running.
The only, *only* thing this as*hole can do is sell.

Volker - "Not-impressed-by-big-numbers-of-sold-sh*t" - Herminghaus-Shirai

...feeling much better now ;-)
--
Volker Herminghaus-Shirai (vhs@rhein-main.de)

Computer industry: Industry in which the number of units sold of any
given product is inversely proportional to its technical excellence.
See also: MS-DOS, Windows, IBM-PC, X, QWERTY,
          80x86, TrueType, Survival of the shittest.