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From: woody@nntp-server.caltech.edu (William Edward Woody)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: give me solid facts: why is the mac better than MeSsy DOS/WINDOWS
Message-ID: <1991Mar22.050908.28727@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 22 Mar 91 05:09:08 GMT
References: <1991Mar16.021936.21633@amd.com> <16918@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> <1991Mar21.024213.9550@amd.com>
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In article <1991Mar21.024213.9550@amd.com> phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) writes:
>In article <16918@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> dave@PRC.Unisys.COM (David Lee Matuszek) writes:
>|As to "overwhelming advantages": unfortunately, this uniformity across
>|applications is very hard for DOS users to see, and even harder for
>|them to understand the importance of, but for me it's crucial.  I use
>
>I don't buy this at all, unless you're talking about the DOS straw man.
>If you are trying to make a useful comparison of Mac vs Windows, I
>find the Win apps I've seen to be quite consistent in terms of
>there being a file menu, edit menu, clipboard, etc.

Phil:

	You once commented to me that you aren't a developer, nor do you
care how difficult each environment makes development, so long as you get
the quality applications you need to do your work.

	I respect this.

	However, I may suggest that you may wish to limit your comments on
to do with uniformity across applications, as this is a development
issue, one you yourself have said (privately, I know) was not a concern of
yours.

	As development difficulties on the different environments is a concern
of mine (as I do active development on both the Macintosh and MS Windows 3),
I can say that the issues of compatability is far easier to cope with on the
Macintosh than under Windows.  Further, the Apple Human Interface Guidelines
are much more complete and easier to deal with than the SAA CUA interface.
Finally, compatability with the Apple Human Interface Guidelines is greater
across all Macintosh applications I have seen than have Windows 3 applications.
(Shucks, Windows 3 itself violates the SAA CUI guidelines that it itself
is supposed to support and advocate!)

							-- Bill

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