Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!netcom!chas From: chas@netcom.UUCP (Chuck Fisher) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: New Macintosh Strategy Keywords: Macintosh Message-ID: <15882@netcom.UUCP> Date: 30 Oct 90 23:52:57 GMT References: <1990Oct29.195413.7784@phri.nyu.edu> <1054@mdavcr.UUCP> <1990Oct30.165433.28495@phri.nyu.edu> Distribution: comp.sys.mac.hardware Organization: Netcom- The Bay Area's Public Access Unix System {408 241-9760 guest} Lines: 31 In article <1990Oct30.165433.28495@phri.nyu.edu> roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes: >ewm@mdavcr.UUCP (Eric W. Mitchell) writes: > 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. SunView has a variable called "ClickToType" or something like that which makes a Sun act like the Mac does under MultiFinder. That is, that you have to "click" in a window in order to make it "active." The story I had heard was that there was much debate within Engineering at Sun over this point and so they leave it to user discretion of how windows are activated. Chuck ----- -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | Chuck Fisher Work: (800) 359-7997 | | chas@netcom.uucp Home: (415) 964-2819 | | {apple,claris,amdahl,tandem}!netcom!chas | ----------------------------------------------------------------------