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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga (Games--Macintosh vs A500)
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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 91 22:38:52 GMT

In article <1991Mar19.015116.11764@hubcap.clemson.edu> ddyer@hubcap.clemson.edu (Doug Dyer) writes:
>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?
>-- 
	True, as an operating system it stinks. But as an
application environment it is SOO frustrating that they've been
out so little time and yet already have a word processor (Word)
and a spreadsheet (Excel) far better than we have.
	My experiences with Windows are on a 16MHz PS2/70 and the
speed has been acceptable. It is better integrated than the Amiga
with such things as printing, where enormous control is provided
by windows.
	I'd rather have Workbench (with good software) than
Windows, but there are still important things to take from it.

	-- Ethan


A tourist in New York City was overheard asking a New Yorker,

	"Excuse me, can you tell me how to get to the statue of
liberty, or should I go f*ck myself?"