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From: p554mve@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Macs etc.
Message-ID: <1330@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>
Date: 22 Oct 90 01:08:16 GMT
References: <52335.656182799@atronx.UUCP> <10803@goofy.Apple.COM> <28954@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: p554mve@mpirbn.UUCP (Michael van Elst)
Organization: Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie, Bonn
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In article <28954@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU writes:
>But if I've got a 12 level directory, and I want some text out of that
>12th directory -- I'll open a shell.  To shame with the iconic interface,
>it just gets in my way.  I have, in a sense, graduated from the need for
>the holding hand of <insert name of UI>.

Not quite a good comparison. It's true when the common paradigm (file system
tree) is used with the graphical user interface. But it the interface is
designed well it would hide this, think of Hypermedia.

Regards,
-- 
Michael van Elst
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