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

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From: Paul Christenson
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 04:44

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Chad Irby (cirby@magicnet.net) wrote:

: "Okay... so I'm in /pub/bin/Simulators/x25_Interfaces/lib_3/pix... Oh,
: *there* it is!"

: This is *not* anywhere close to "Apple Menu... hold... drag... there-
: there- there- there- there- got it."

Only if you remember where you hid the icon.

: Unix could be really fast, if you memorized the location of every file and
: directory on your machine.  But once you get past that first thousand
: files, it's not so easy.

No, that's why there are such things as 'paths', 'scripts' (batch files) 
and 'symbolic links'.

Almost all of my programs are in one of two directories; /usr/bin (binaries 
that come with the OS), and /usr/local/bin (stuff I've added).  Programs
that need to be in a specific subdir have scripts located in /usr/local/scripts.

When I ran DOS, I had .BAT files in \MENU that did the CD and started the 
program.

Unix usually defaults to having their support files in either 
/usr/local/bin/progname/ or /usr/local/lib/progname/.

CLIs are only as bad as you make them.  GUIs are similar.  My main
bitch about GUIs is the unnecessary load they put on system resources.

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