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Started by Paul Christenson
Fri, 22 Mar 1996 04:44
Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
Author: Paul Christenson
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 04:44
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.
Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
Author: David K. Every
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 14:24
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 14:24
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In article <4itb8a$320@news.erie.net>, pce@moose.erie.net (Paul Christenson) wrote: > 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. OK. Semi-valid complaint. GUI's waste MIPS when they are being used to navigate. Of course they make the user faster (in 98% of the cases) so is it really a waste of MIPS?!?! So is wasting a little CPU time in the forground on a single user machine such a big deal, when that user is seldom doing anything else? I think not. How fast can you type anyways?!?!? So a CLI COULD take less processor time - you can't type that fast (or read that fast anyways). My 7500 scrolls text much much faster than I can read it, and accepts characters much much faster than I can type it anyways (under a CLI under a GUI). So who cares?!?! In fact apple is looking at new ways to burn MIPS - like active assistance - automatic finding - 3D metaphores and Virtual Spaces... why, because arguably those metaphores and features will use the computers resources to make ME more productive. I dont need MIPS in the background - I need my MIPS working for ME! -- David K. Every Sr. Software Engineer Jostens Learning Corp.
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