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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
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Subject: Re: Laptop NeXT (dream) (+ What NeXT Should Do)
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Date: 14 Jun 90 15:06:45 GMT
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In article <27@kaos.MATH.UCLA.EDU> barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) writes:
>This also wouldn't undermine NeXT's original goal of
>raising the lowest common denominator---the only reduced
>functionality of the Micro Cube is the size of the display.

But the size of the display is one of the MOST IMPORTANT least common
denominators there is.  You design differently for a small display than
a big one.

For exmaple, several apps (Mail, Librarian come to mind) use windows like this:

	stuff
	-------
	more stuff
	-------
	even more stuff
	
You just plain can't do that on a small screen.

Now, whether 13" is enough smaller to cramp such apps might be a subject for
debate.
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Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
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