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Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???

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From: Dan Pop
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 01:40
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In <jragosta-1603961044520001@ppp-2003.dca.net> jragosta@dca.net (Joe Ragosta) writes:

>> In article <danpop.825099855@rscernix>, danpop@mail.cern.ch says...
>> >
>> >In <jragosta-2302960903020001@ppp-1011.dca.net> jragosta@dca.net (Joe 
>> Ragosta) writes:
>> >
>> 
>> ...<snip>
>> 
>> >>For example, if I want to open a file on my Mac, it takes
>> >>a single mouse click to open virtually any file on any of my mounted
>> >>drives.
>> >
>> >Not quite.  You have to go to the folder containing the file first, by
>> >opening all the intermediary folders, then you need a double click.
>> >If the file is on an unmounted disk on another Mac, nobody is going to
>> >magically mount the remote disk for you.  If the file is on a Mac on a
>> >different continent, you'll be in deep trouble, while I can access it
>> >transparently via AFS, as if it were on my local disk.
>
>You're wrong. As we all knew, you're talking about something you don't
>have a clue about.
>
>It takes a single mouse click on a Mac. Have you ever heard of
>hierarchical menus?

Of course, I'm using them all the time in my window manager :-)

It might be one mouse click, but it will be a very long one :-)

I can still type the path faster on a shell with filename completion.

Dan
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Dan Pop
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Email: danpop@mail.cern.ch 
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From: danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
Date: 19 Mar 96 01:40:31 GMT
Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
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