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From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: X11 bashing
Message-ID: <4558@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 26 Apr 91 15:28:55 GMT
References: <16818@chaph.usc.edu> <558@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: richard@aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin)
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In article <558@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM> lm@slovax.Eng.Sun.COM (Larry McVoy) writes:
>Think carefully before you flame me - think hard about the Mac.  The reason 
>that *users* like the Mac is due, in part, to the consistent look and feel
>of the user interface.  You may not like it, but you remember how it works.

Sorry, I'm going to flame you.

Of course *users* like the mac - that's why they're users.  Those of
us who tried it and found the interface completely non-intuitive went
elsewhere.

Remember how it works?  I couldn't even find out how it worked...

-- Richard
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