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From: cadsi@ccad.uiowa.edu (CADSI)
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Subject: Re: give me solid facts: why is the mac better than MeSsy DOS/WINDOWS
Message-ID: <1991Mar26.205631.16141@ccad.uiowa.edu>
Date: 26 Mar 91 20:56:31 GMT
References: <1991Mar26.181438.17611@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
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From article <1991Mar26.181438.17611@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>, by dave@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Dave Hayes):
> akm@obelix.cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal) writes:
>>One of the things that I respect the Mac for is that it made
>>programmers aware that the needs and perceptions of the user are of
>>paramount importance. 
> 
> This would have been GREAT if some programmers hadn't gone ALL the way to
> the other side and considered that the needs and perceptions of users
> (who really did not know WHAT they wanted in most cases) were more important 
> than functionality, robustness, usefulness, and efficiency. 
> 

Anybody ever run a BATCH file on a MAC.  Better yet, anybody ever
use that input queue to his advantage in getting ahead of the machine?
On a MAC, YOU wait for the machine, no if's and's or but's.  Batch
processing is not a bad word, quite the contrary.  It has its purpose,
and this purpose is not filled by MAC's.  Therefore, in answer to
the article subject, the MAC is NOT better than DOS machines, just
more demanding of user input.

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