Article View: comp.sys.powerpc
Article #3396Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Dan Pop
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 01:40
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 01:40
39 lines
2277 bytes
2277 bytes
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 -- Dan Pop CERN, CN Division Email: danpop@mail.cern.ch Mail: CERN - PPE, Bat. 31 R-004, CH-1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<danpop.827199631@rscernix>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!rcp6.elan.af.mil!rscernix!danpopReferences:
<nevin-0602962253080001@150.135.1.79> <danpop.82 <nevin-1302961823100001@150.135.1.79> <danpop.824304112@rscernix> <4g00uj$gaq@nuke.csu.net> <danpop.824477998@rscernix> <4gis6m$f1l@bigboote.WPI.EDU> <danpop.825041941@rscernix> <jragosta-2302960903020001@ppp-1011.dca.net> <danpop.825099855@rscernix> <4ic6i6$mnk@info.estec.esa.nl> <jragosta-1603961044520001@ppp-2003.dca.net>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!rcp6.elan.af.mil!rscernix!danpop From: danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....??? Date: 19 Mar 96 01:40:31 GMT Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics Message-ID: <danpop.827199631@rscernix> References: <nevin-0602962253080001@150.135.1.79> <danpop.82 <nevin-1302961823100001@150.135.1.79> <danpop.824304112@rscernix> <4g00uj$gaq@nuke.csu.net> <danpop.824477998@rscernix> <4gis6m$f1l@bigboote.WPI.EDU> <danpop.825041941@rscernix> <jragosta-2302960903020001@ppp-1011.dca.net> <danpop.825099855@rscernix> <4ic6i6$mnk@info.estec.esa.nl> <jragosta-1603961044520001@ppp-2003.dca.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ues5.cern.ch X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #7 (NOV)