Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!smunews!ti-csl!skbat!dittman From: dittman@skbat.csc.ti.com (Eric Dittman) Newsgroups: comp.os.misc Subject: Re: Mac/Amiga religious war (was: Macintosh OS) Message-ID: <69.2690d735@skbat.csc.ti.com> Date: 3 Jul 90 22:34:45 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.c Lines: 60 sc.ti.com> Followup-To: c.ti.com> Organization: Texas Instruments Component Test Facility Lines: 54 In article , peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > 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 see a lot of Amiga and Atari crusaders as well. This is probably due to the "Us vs. Them" attitude that develops from owning a computer with a small (compared to the IBM PC clones) market. >> [comments about wanting a 3-button mouse deleted] > 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. If there's one thing that Apple has done right, it's standardise. I think if Apple brought out a 3-button mouse, they'd also update their development guidelines to reflect the "standard" method of dealing with the buttons. >> 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). And this goes back to the "Is the Mac user interface really part of the Mac OS?" argument that's been beaten to death lately (and which I've tired of reading). >> 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` > > -- Uh, oh, the wolf has its tongue sticking out. And I hope the ' ` are whiskers (otherwise, the wolf must be drooling). :-) And completely off the subject, do you own a wolf or something? Eric Dittman Texas Instruments - Component Test Facility dittman@skitzo.csc.ti.com dittman@skbat.csc.ti.com Disclaimer: I don't speak for Texas Instruments or the Component Test Facility. I don't even speak for myself.