Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!texbell!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.os.misc Subject: Re: Mac/Amiga religious war (was: Macintosh OS) Message-ID: Date: 2 Jul 90 22:20:16 GMT References: <26637.266e6ed4@vaxb.acs.unt.edu> <6567@scolex.sco.COM> <1990Jun9.021855.8767@wolves.uucp> <1990Jun17.142040.21492@math.lsa.umich.edu> <3L24UYE@xds13.ferranti.com> <55.267e2342@skbat.csc.ti.com> <67.2687c62e@skbat.csc.ti.com> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 34 In article <67.2687c62e@skbat.csc.ti.com> dittman@skbat.csc.ti.com (Eric Dittman) writes: > I know the type you mean. I guess this is a knee-jerk reaction due to > local conversations with AmigaZealots (also TM someone, probably) who lump > all Mac owners in the same group. Sorry. Well, the Mac seems to collect a larger-than-usual proportion of Crusaders. It's a breakthrough machine, and I'd have no hesitation recommending it to people who need a computer but don't want to deal with one. Except for one thing: Apple. Too many MacZealots have convinced them they really ARE gods. > I don't mind the pull-down menus. I would like more than one button on > the mouse, though. If they'd standardise it. I like SELECT-PERFORM-EXTEND, where SELECT is used to mark things, PERFORM does a default action (like double-clicking), and EXTEND provides extra actions (via a menu, of any type, or changing a button text, or...). The Amiga has only two buttons, so you double-click on SELECT to get PERFORM, and EXTEND is called MENU. > While I'd put MSDOS in the '60s category, I would put the MacOS in more > of a mid- to late '70s category. It's a split. The underlying O/S itself is still in the library-of-common- functions stage, with the application still managing the whole system. That puts it in the early '60s. The user interface is late '70s (mid-to-late Xerox Smalltalk stuff). > BTW, what is the " `-_-' " symbol supposed to be? It's a wolf. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' "Have you hugged your wolf today?" +1 713 274 5180. 'U` --