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In article <1991Nov4.221237.914@alphalpha.com> nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) writes:

   In article <1991Nov4.052817.14034@wpi.WPI.EDU> entropy@wintermute.WPI.EDU (Lawrence C. Foard) writes:
 >I think the utility of this is badly over blown. I don't expect the controls
 >for a database and text editor to be any more similar than the controls for a
 >car and a jet plane.

  Really?  You don't expect clicking and dragging to select something?  Or
  Command-C/X/V to Copy/Cut/Paste the item selected?  You don't expect a
  search to be brought up with the same sequence, or the edit menu to be
  in the same place?  You don't expect the buttons to be similar in appearance,
  and their placement in dialogs to be the same?  You don't expect the
  same mechanisms for getting help on the product, or finding out who
  wrote it, or quiting out of it?

Simply put, no.

The right tool for the right job. Macs are good for some things, less good for
others. The somewhat standard (everyone breaks the rules) user interface can 
sometimes be useful and can sometimes really get in the way. The world is
not black and white. There is always room for alternative solutions.


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Dietrich Kappe
kap1@icarus.spc.uchicago.edu
Center for Population Economics