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In article <danpop.827527083@rscernix>, danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote:

> In <dke-2203960645550001@adnline48.adnc.com> dke@adnc.com (David K.
Every) writes:
> 
> >In other words MacOS is being UserDriven... Unix and NT where technology
> >(engineer) driven. Which is more in the users best interests?!?
> 
> The better designed one, of course.  Fortunately, for Apple and Microsoft,
> the users don't know this :-)  

Depends on what your design goals are. If your goals are stability than
WinNT and Unix meet their goals better. If you goals are usability,
understandability, consistancy, metaphore, ease of use, productivity and a
lower level of stability then Macs are DEFINITELY designed better.

> A system which crashes and freezes frequently is definitely not in the
> users best interests!  That is, excepting the users with masochistical
> inclinations :-)

How frequent is frequent?!

Are most people willing to handle crashes once per day if they are more
productive over all?!?! Answer - YES. On Macs they can expect much less
frequent crashes than that. So frequent to you may be once/month... but
for a user this is a reasonable sacrafice for the added configurability,
reliability, ease of use, productivity, etc.

> P.S.  NT is actually a mixture of user driven and technology driven.
> The net result is that it failed to convince both Joe User's and 
> computer literate users :-)

In other words it is NOT user driven, and NOT technology driven, and fails
to offer a compelling reason to get it for either. Only purist engineers,
or server apps offer a compelling reason of yet.
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David K. Every           | MaciDo Warrior - The Macintosh Way
Sr. Software Engineer    | 
Jostens Learning Corp.   |