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In article <3vgeuv$2to@sundog.tiac.net>
Jim Williams <williams@tiac.net> writes:

> jdredd@eagle.ns.net (James DeBenedetti) wrote:
> >Well, let's see.  When I first started using home computers fifteen
> >years ago, they couldn't do any of the following:
> >
> >- WYSIWYG displays
> 
> Do you mean the applications or the the time-wasting GUI interfaces which
> prevent you from doing things?
> 
> >- cut & paste graphics
> 
> Which? Applications, OLE, Clipboard?  Some apps can do nifty things -- the
> rest of it is garbage.
> 
> >- 24 bit color
> 
> Yawn.
> 
> >- video
> 
> Applications.
> 
> >- Quicktime VR
> 
> Application.
> 
> >- voice recognition (even the limited form we have today)
> 
> I don't know if this is hooked into the OS, but I'm in no hurry to
> have the computer listen in on my converstions.
> 
> >
> >I can do lots of things on today's computers that I wouldn't have
> >dreamed of doing on the old Commodore PETs I used to use.
> >
> 
> Not very much offered for 15 years of progress, and most of it is
> applications -- not OS.

Geez, do you consider everything beyond certain kinds of file i/o and
timesharing to be use of an application rather than the OS?  Also, I
thought this thread was about how much/little computers had advanced in
the past decade or so, not the difference between applications and
OSes.

In response to your response:

-WYSIWIG:  Keeps me from printing out sliced up garbage when I print
spreadsheets with different fonts.

-GUI:  Keeps me from having to type in dozens of 10+ character
filenames when I want to delete a portion of what's in a directory. 
This also makes it easy to modify the OS by dragging in and out
functions that I don't want.

-Cut & Paste:  Nice when I want to transfer a graphic to my word
processing document.  It's also a fast way to copy text from the middle
of a word processing document to the middle of a spreadsheet.

-24 bit Color:  Don't you Unix types use computers for anything besides
database manipulation and file transfers?  :-)  Please see "Video"
below.

-Video:  Whether you classify Quicktime as an application or OS
extension doesn't change the fact that it wasn't done fifteen years
ago.  Personally, I would much rather have video conferencing than
POTS.

-Voice Recognition:  As much a part of the Mac OS as Quicktime.  There
are many times when I'm doing something away from the computer and
would like to  direct it without having to go over and type in a bunch
of commands.  This would also be a cool remote control system for a
computer with video-in.


James DeBenedetti (jdredd@ns.net)
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