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From: roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: New Macintosh Strategy
Keywords: Macintosh
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Date: 30 Oct 90 16:54:33 GMT
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ewm@mdavcr.UUCP (Eric W. Mitchell) writes:
> the ones who need [VM] most are *precisely* the secretaries, scientists,
> etc, who want to do wordprocessing, data graphing, and figure preparation.
> These are the people who want to have 3-4 programs running so they can have
> a spreadsheet active, copy data from it into a graphing program, which they
> then copy to a drawing program to fine tune, and finally transfer the
> result to a wordprocessor to reinforce the text.

	I do that all the time right now with plain old non-VM, not true
multitasking, not timesharing, MultiFinder.  The only thing that annoys me
about MF (and I'm not sure if it's just the way it is, or something imposed
by the non-VM environment) is that you have to click in a window to activate
it.  It takes me a little mental effort to shift gears from my suntools
environment to MF because of this.  Then again, I watch new people use the
Sun and not understand why, just because their elbow accidentally pushed the
mouse out of the window, their keyboard all of a sudden went dead.  Besides,
somebody who uses a Mac for all their work won't have the Sun style windows
to confuse them.
--
Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute
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