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From: steved@hrshcx.csd.harris.com (Steve Daukas)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Why even use Windows x.xx?
Message-ID: <1077@hrshcx.csd.harris.com>
Date: 12 Apr 91 11:24:01 GMT
References: <1280@duteca.UUCP> <10960@uwm.edu>
Organization: Harris Computer Systems, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
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In article <10960@uwm.edu> markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark William Hopkins) writes:
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>   Maybe I missed the boat somewhere, but what is so great about windows
>anyhow?  What does it get me that I already can't get with reasonable command
>shell, a good editor and a few good UNIX-like utilities?
>
>   Or was it simply meant as something to be marketed to people who have an
>aversion to command-line shells?  You know, personal taste?


The whole GUI thing has come about for ease of use and productivity.
I agree that there are many places where the ol command line is quicker,
but I do like having multilple windows for doing more than one thing at
a time.  I like having a clock on the screen while I'm working on something.

I personally like having folders.  For me, it makes it easier to find
things that I havn't worked on for a few years - I don't have to remember
what sub-sub-sub-subdirectory it might be in.  Its more like my file 
cabenet or my desk.

I like to think of it in terms of an analogy to when Dos added the 
directory/subdirectory ability.  At first, people asked why - now its
a standard reuirement.  I suspect that GUIs will be the norm in a few
more years.  I don't mind because I still have access to the command line,
and I can take advantage of those features of the GUI that are useful
to me.

Steve
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