Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!ucsd!nosc!crash!ncr-sd!se-sd!jim From: jim@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Jim Ruehlin, Cognitologist domesticus) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Windows 3 criticism Message-ID: <3957@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> Date: 3 Oct 90 15:08:06 GMT References: <4297@rex.cs.tulane.edu> <57914@microsoft.UUCP> Organization: NCR Corporation, Systems Engineering - San Diego Lines: 21 In article <57914@microsoft.UUCP> sunni@microsoft.UUCP (Sunni ROGERS) writes: >In article <4297@rex.cs.tulane.edu> keating@rex.cs.tulane.edu (John W. Keating) writes: >>Gerry@frc2.frc.ri.cmu.edu (Gerry Roston) writes: >>>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? Dvorak makes a carrier out of taking pot-shots at whatever new, popular software comes along. He hated the Macintosh interface when it was first presented. He later hated Hypercard for the Mac because it allowed programmers to easily write interfaces that didn't adhere to the Mac standard. And now he hates Windows because he likes the c:>. It looks at first like he's come a full circle, but really it's just an automatic reaction to anything new that Dvorak has - attack it until people get bored of hearing about it. - Jim Ruehlin