Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!tank!gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu
From: gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: New MS Windows (?)
Message-ID: <9511@tank.uchicago.edu>
Date: 30 May 90 17:19:57 GMT
Sender: news@tank.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
Lines: 35

In article <1990May29.214054.21609@portia.Stanford.EDU>, aaron@jessica.stanford.edu (Aaron Wallace) writes...
 
>I'm not a regular reader of comp.sys.mac.misc, but just to set the record
>straight and prevent the spreading of mis-information...
[...]
>Believe it or not, a lot of people who love Windows hate mice.  Even mousers
>will find themselves using the keyboard shortcuts (as do most Mac users I 
>know).  I'm always miffed when I can't ESC out of a Dialog box or hit Enter
>instead of clicking OK on a Mac.  At least Mac Word supports this...

Hitting the OK or Enter key should almost always result in a dialog box's going
away on the Mac: it's standard behavior for ModalDialog.
[...]

>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
>	part of multitasking--what's the use of having 6 applications running
>	if one of them can cause the whole works to crash?

Um, is this really protected memory?  Methinks not.  In fact, this behavior
seems quite similar to MultiFinder: if the program crashes with not too severe
an error, MultiFinder will simply post the message "Program X unexpectedly
quit".


Robert

============================================================================
= gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu * generic disclaimer: * "It's more fun to =
=            		         * all my opinions are *  compute"         =
=                                * mine                *  -Kraftwerk       =
============================================================================