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In article <nevin-0309950108480001@mac-nevin.cs.arizona.edu>,
Nevin ":-]" Liber <nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU> wrote:
>In article <19950902.117E5D8.8A11@olympus.net>, dons@olympus.net (Don
>Schmelling) wrote:
>
>> Dumb end-users ask a professionals opinion of what they need.
>
>Professionals don't think of their customers as "dumb".  

Definitely agree.  I might think of them as inexperienced, but I'll
think of them as "dumb" only if they end up asking the same question
repeatedly after having been told the same answer repeatedly.

>> Your right most dumb end-users may not know what PMT means but
>> hopefully the professionals they ask do know what it means, and
>> that is indispensable.
>
>Indispensable??  I do not think that word means what you think it means. 
>99% of the people who use computers have been without it for
>decades. 

Of course, prior to Windows, 99% of the people who used computers had
been without GUIs for decades.  That some large group of people
managed to do without a particular capability for a long period of
time in no way implies that the capability isn't useful or won't
become essential.

I'll certainly agree that preemptive multitasking isn't as much of an
improvement over cooperative multitasking as protected memory is over
unprotected memory, but it's nonetheless an improvement that has the
potential to be rather significant.  PMT on a Mac would mean that my
fiancee could have run her statistical analysis on her data and
continued to work on her thesis at the same time, instead of waiting
hours for the analysis to complete.

>Plus, any so-called professional who says to me without first asking what
>I want to *do* with my computer would be right out the door.

Definitely agree with this as well, with one caveat: knowing what you
want to do *now* and realizing what you'll need later are two very
different things.  Most people have an inkling of what they want to do
with their computer now but have no idea what they'll need it to do in
the future.

It's not like PMT is groundbreakingly new technology or anything.
It's been around a long time.  There's no good excuse for any modern
OS to use CMT over PMT.

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