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Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 16:09
Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 16:09
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Chu-En Ginsberg whined: >John Dvorak first commented on the Macintosh? Nobody in here is quite that old Gramps. > >"The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a 'mouse.' >There is no evidence that people want to use these things. What >businessman knows about point sizes on typefaces or the value of >variable point sizes ? Who out there in the general marketplace even >knows what a 'font' is? > >The whole concept and attitude towards icons and hieroglyphs is actually >counterrevolutionary � it's a language that is hardly 'user friendly'. >This type of machine was developed by hardware hackers working out of >Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center. It has yet to find popular success. >There seems to be some mysterious user resistance to this type of >machine." � John C. Dvorak, San Francisco Examiner, 19-02-1984 > >Made me chuckle :) > >Chu
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