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From: ddyer@hubcap.clemson.edu (Doug Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga (Games--Macintosh vs A500)
Message-ID: <1991Mar19.015116.11764@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Date: 19 Mar 91 01:51:16 GMT
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peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:


>Microsoft Windows has about the best user interface I've seen on any machine.
>It's the only one reasonably usable from the mouse *or* the keyboard...
>everyone else has made a stab at supporting keyboard control (and don't tell
>me Apple does any better at this... they're not), Microsoft has made it work.

I thought it sucked. True, you can use a keyboard well, but for using
MW as an operating system its terrible (ie, running setup to install
software, dos shells one at a time, not having a drawer inside a drawer,
drawers don't represent directories,...). Its also funny to click on the
close box and get a menu, although thats reaching...

keyboard pull-down windows is nice.  Isn't there a recent program that
does that on a fish disk?
-- 
"It is recommended that each servicer have a pair of balls for maintaining
 optimum customer satisfaction, and that any customer missing his balls 
 should suspect local personnel of removing these necessary functional
 items. " -- abstract from computer accessory parts catalog (mouse balls)