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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
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Subject: Re: Mac OS 7.0 to use point-and-click
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Date: 6 Jun 90 00:54:13 GMT
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In-Reply-To: daugher@cs.tamu.edu's message of 5 Jun 90 23:46:49 GMT

In article <5635@helios.TAMU.EDU> daugher@cs.tamu.edu (Dr. Walter C. Daugherity) writes:


   When NeXT first came out with point-and-click to focus (i.e., to make a
   window come to the front and become the key window requires you to move the
   cursor onto the window and press the mouse button), there was a lot of 
   screaming and gnashing of teeth from Sun and Mac users, who were used to
   just pointing at a window and banging on the keys.

   Now Apple has announced that version 7.0 of the Mac operating system, due
   out later this year, will switch to point-and-click to focus.

   So Steve is still helping design Apples! :-)

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I'm one of those people that doesn't like point-and-click to focus and
think that this should be a optional.  Going back and forth between
machines that use the two different methods is annoying as hell!
Apple should "steal" the better parts of the Next 8-).

-Mike