Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!udel!princeton!njin!uupsi!sunic!tut!santra!cs.hut.fi!jem From: jem@cs.hut.fi (Johan Myreen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: New MS Windows (?) Message-ID: Date: 30 May 90 15:46:05 GMT References: <34844@<1990May23> <71100007@p.cs.uiuc.edu> <22321@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <1990May29.214054.21609@portia.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@santra.uucp (Cnews - USENET news system) Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Lines: 29 In-Reply-To: aaron@jessica.stanford.edu's message of 29 May 90 21:40:54 GMT In article <1990May29.214054.21609@portia.Stanford.EDU> aaron@jessica.stanford.edu (Aaron Wallace) writes: >UNIX, incidentally. It's also nice to be able to get rid of all files of >a certain kind using wildcards... The way to do this from the Finder is to sort the files by type, grab them with the mouse and throw tem in the trash. Not as fast as typing del *.txt, but it can be done. >The ability to iconify a windows is something I really wish the Mac had--I >like to be able to load an app, use it, shrink it down when I don't need it, >and restore it to use it again. Cycling through programs or choosing one >from the Finder is klunky and still leaves the unneeded ones occupying real- >estate. The new Finder will fix this. And set aside applications won't even leave an icon occupying real estate... >5) Memory protection. On the Mac if one program goes south the bomb probably > will make an appearance. Under Windows 3.0 you get a box saying that > the application misbehaved and, if the error wasn't too extreme, > Windows will kick it out and continue along. Protection is a vital On the Mac, you will get a box saying that the application misbehaved... Not always, of course. __ Johan Myreen jem@cs.hut.fi