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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: System 1.0 / 7.0 deja vu
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Date: 11 May 91 22:24:38 GMT
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In article <1991May11.150446.3954@midway.uchicago.edu> nwc1@quads.uchicago.edu (Einstuerzende Neubauten) writes:
>Writing about System 1.0, Pai Chou (chou@june.cs.washington.edu) writes:
>
>	One thing that I miss is that the old Finder shows you
>	the size of the folders on top of the window; but since they
>	went HFS, you have to do a Get Info command.
>
>Does anyone else seem to find this extensively humorous that eons of computer
>time later, with the advent of HFS and other similarly great improvements,
>that it took until System 7.0 to return this feature? Also this one:
[...]
You think THAT is funny, System 7.0 (re)introduces the idea of stationary pads
--documents which when double clicked on, make a new untitled copy of
themselves and open that.  (Hard to explain, but they are very useful).  That
one comes from none other than.... Lisa Office System 7/7
>
>La plus que change... [The more that changes...] :-)
I remember it as "La plus ca change, la plus ca meme chose".  But my French, to
put it mildly, stinks.    ^cedilla here      ^cedilla here

>(I'm waiting for System 7.0, too) [like who's not?]
Those of us who have it already :-)

(hey, I've only got 'til monday to lord it over the 3 people on the net who
don't have it :-) )
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Matthew T. Russotto	russotto@eng.umd.edu	russotto@wam.umd.edu
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