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From: jess@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Jess M Holle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: give me solid facts: why is the mac better than MeSsy DOS/WINDOWS
Message-ID: <1991Mar29.034441.25349@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 29 Mar 91 03:44:41 GMT
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In article <1991Mar29.002307.9456@agate.berkeley.edu> korpela@stew.ssl.berkeley.edu (Eric J. Korpela) writes:
>In article <23195@as0c.sei.cmu.edu> bwb@sei.cmu.edu (Bruce Benson) writes:
>>                                       The other thing I like about the MAC is
>>Excel, or Powerpoint (etc.) the MAC only displays the open document and uses
>>a single command bar for all applications that are loaded.
>
>Actually, I find that one of the most annoying Macintosh traits.  Everything
>wants to use the whole damn screen.  In MS windows I can be programming in one
>window while looking at reference docs in another, while glancing over at
>an ASCII table in another, while looking at the number that has just popped up
>in the calculator.  I don't have to click in the upper right corner to change 
>apps.
>
>IMHO, multifinder doesn't come close to MS windows when it comes to running
>multiple apps.  Maybe if you have a 19 inch screen it's a bit better, but
>not even God can afford one of those.  (Hell, even a 16 inch Mac monitor is
>out of his price range. And color?  You might as well forget it.)
>
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What's wrong with running programs all over the screen on a Mac like you say
you do under windows and simply clicking once on the window you want to make 
active?

Jess Holle