Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!decwrl!shelby!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!o.gp.cs.cmu.edu!netnews.srv.cs.cmu.edu!gerry From: gerry@frc2.frc.ri.cmu.edu (Gerry Roston) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Windows 3 criticism Message-ID: Date: 18 Sep 90 15:56:44 GMT References: Sender: netnews@cs.cmu.edu (USENET News Group Software) Reply-To: gerry@frc2.frc.ri.cmu.edu (Gerry Roston) Organization: Field Robotics Center, CMU Lines: 31 In-Reply-To: dve@zooid.UUCP's message of 16 Sep 90 15:55:49 GMT In article dve@zooid.UUCP (David Mason) writes: I can't understand people like John Dvorak at all. He seems to be a total opponent to Windows. Do these people not see that Windows is much more effective and powerful than straight DOS? This is never the case and never will be the case when you compare a toy operating environment (Windows 3, Mac, NeXT) to a command line oriented interface (DOS, UNIX). Now, don't get me wrong, DOS sucks rocks and is horribly broken, but the ability to do things at the C:> far exceeds any point and click ability. And the reason is quite simply this. The folks who design the point and click have some operating paradigm in mind when they write there environment. If you wish to do anything they didn't think of, you're SOL. Futhermore, these point and click environments are geared towards novices, so that nayone canuse a computer. This tends to force everyone to a level of mediocrtiy as opposed to leting truly knowledgable individuals soar to heights of excellence. The only thing that Windows has to offer the DOS world is multitasking. Now, if only DOS with wither away and die, to be replaced by UNIX, then the world would be a much better place. -- gerry roston, field robotics center robotics institute, carnegie mellon university pittsburgh, pennsylvania, 15213 (412) 268-6557 gerry@cs.cmu.edu