Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!stl!dswt From: dswt@stl.stc.co.uk (Stewart Tansley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: System 7.0 suggestion Summary: Rubbish -- give me a single dictionary architecture Message-ID: <3226@stl.stc.co.uk> Date: 19 Jul 90 16:53:22 GMT References: <956.2695f9be@waikato.ac.nz> <9047@goofy.Apple.COM> <5@genco.uucp> <1806@hsi86.hsi.UUCP> Sender: news@stl.stc.co.uk Reply-To: "Stewart Tansley" Organization: STC Technology Limited, London Road, Harlow, Essex, UK Lines: 30 In article <1806@hsi86.hsi.UUCP> kenney@hsi.com (Brian Kenney) writes: >In article <5@genco.uucp> rad@genco. (Bob Daniel) writes: > >>Wouldn't it be nice to have just one system wide dictionary? > > I don't think so. That sounds like creaping featurism, and would amount >to more delays in system software. Rubbish. :-) + :-| Well, whilst I hate delays as much as anyone, there are some excellent features that *should* be put into System 7 nonetheless, which are (apparently) not being done. A standard dictionary architecture is one of them. Why all the fuss though? A system-wide dictionary could then be assumed by *all* applications (cf. Printers, Comms toolbox, etc.) - just think of the implications & benefits...*and* it would be a key feature to beat the MS-DOS/Windows boys with... :-) (Ok, so maybe this is one of Apple's 'leave it to the 3rd party boys' things? Also, note that Claris *has* a application-independent dictionary architecture - for its own apps.) =========================================================================== Stewart Tansley | STC Technology Ltd | 'Be cool, or be +44 279 29531 x2763 | London Rd, Harlow, CM17 9NA, UK | cast out...' dswt@stl.stc.co.uk | ...uunet!mcvax!ukc!stl!dswt | Subdivisions, Rush =========================================================================== 'You know how that rabbit feels - going under your spinning wheels...' ===========================================================================