Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!haven!mimsy!mojo!russotto From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: What can't it do? Loss of... Message-ID: <1990Jul5.152311.24841@eng.umd.edu> Date: 5 Jul 90 15:23:11 GMT References: <886@mdavcr.UUCP> <28778.269229da@vaxb.acs.unt.edu> <3039@gmdzi.UUCP> Sender: news@eng.umd.edu (The News System) Organization: College of Engineering, Maryversity of Uniland, College Park Lines: 14 >>But given a choice, I'll just open DiskTop and do my directory work in it... >>"Real" DAs are great- you should learn to use them. >>All of the imitations done by the other OSs are too kludgy to be useful. > >If a GUI has been designed for multiple applications running concurrently >and sharing a screen space, there is no need for kludges like DAs or >Multifinders. Internally, DAs and Multifinder are a kludge. But externally, I don't see how either is a kludge. -- Matthew T. Russotto russotto@eng.umd.edu russotto@wam.umd.edu ][, ][+, ///, ///+, //e, //c, IIGS, //c+ --- Any questions? Hey! Bush has NO LIPS!