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Article #7338Re: Porting UNIX Applications to the Mac
From: Ben Liberman
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1986 06:54
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1986 06:54
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In article <15530@mordor.ARPA> jdb@mordor.UUCP (John Bruner) writes: > >A mouse-based interface is appropriate for many situations and users. >I claimed that a keyboard-based alternative is appropriate for some. >That is all I said. (I find some support for my opinion in the >existence of command-key equivalents on the Mac and their popularity >among so-called "power users.") > I agree with you totally. To support either one to the exclusion of the other is a waste of time (at many levels:-). One of the joys of the mac user interface is it allows the novice and expert to begin to operate effectively with no previous experience. As you learn some of the shortcuts you get to do the same things FASTER (having a larger and less obvious command vocabulary). At the novice level you can get around slower with your much limited vocabulary, but you CAN get around. I've run in to some who seem to believe that there is something WRONG with command-key enhancement of the commonly percieved "mac interface". ---------------------- Ben Liberman ihnp4!homebru!magik "Whatever it was that I said...uh...I didn't mean it....honest !!!)
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!lll-lcc!qantel!ihnp4!chinet!magik From: magik@chinet.UUCP (Ben Liberman) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac,net.unix Subject: Re: Porting UNIX Applications to the Mac Message-ID: <556@chinet.UUCP> Date: Thu, 25-Sep-86 02:54:49 EDT Article-I.D.: chinet.556 Posted: Thu Sep 25 02:54:49 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 26-Sep-86 01:02:14 EDT References: <1572@cbdkc1.UUCP> <1091@hoptoad.uucp> Reply-To: magik@chinet.UUCP (Ben Liberman) Organization: chi-net, Public Access UN*X, Chicago IL Lines: 26