Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!bu.edu!transfer!lectroid!angmar.sw.stratus.com!jmann From: jmann@angmar.sw.stratus.com (Jim Mann) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Editor... Message-ID: <2649@lectroid.sw.stratus.com> Date: 10 Oct 90 12:12:56 GMT References: <90280.143318CC65MGTW@MIAMIU.BITNET> Sender: usenet@lectroid.sw.stratus.com Reply-To: jmann@angmar.sw.stratus.com (Jim Mann) Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc. Lines: 26 In article , dve@zooid.UUCP (David Mason) writes: |>You can take a Mac out of the box, plug it in, install a couple programs, |>and it works fine. To fine tune a Mac you just use a few control-panel type |>programs. Of course Windows is inherently more complex because it runs over |>DOS, but I am in touch with users of Windows who've barely touched a |>computer before and the last thing they want to do is wade through a text |>file, trying to figure out all the lines to change, add, or delete, after |>reading all the .TXT files it is necessary to read to fine-tune Windows. |>Microsoft could at least provide a control-panel type interface for the |>basic WIN.INI commands, such as the COM parameters. As it is I consider |>Windows only to be really useable in an organization that has a support |>person available, and that's from experience because during the first couple |>weeks of our new Windows department I spent a fair amount of time in WIN.INI |>fine-tuning. And that was just on 286s, on 386s it becomes more complex. But you cannot fine tune all Mac applications from the control panel or whatever. If you want to change settings for an application, you generally have to open that application to do so. From this point of view, what the end user can do by pointing and clicking is not much different for Windows apps than for Mac apps (and Windows, unlike the Mac, does let you change application configurations by editing a file). Jim Mann Stratus Computer jmann@es.stratus.com