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From: rob@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Robert K Shull)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: About the Finder... (was Re: System 7.0 screwyness/Neat Finder feat
Message-ID: <1991Jun3.151324.5115@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Date: 3 Jun 91 15:13:24 GMT
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In article <231b3678.675916965@fergvax> 231b3678@fergvax.unl.edu (Phil Dietz) writes:
 
>Well, we REAL computer users prefer our computer applications to
>be short-and-sweet -- the utility is designed what it's supposed to do.

Speak for yourself. I enjoy all of the little extras. They keep the computer
interesting. I spend at least 8 hours a day sitting in front of this machine,
and the last thing I want is a stripped-down bare-bones computer with no
personality. If I wanted that, I'd be running MS-DOS. :-)

>Computer users are efficiency maniacs.   We dont care for the wasting 
>'extras'.

Again, this is patently false, unless you want to classify all of those
UNIX X-Windows users as "every other joe out there." I imagine there
would be some people from M.I.T. who'd like to talk to you about that :-)
Check out the number of "wasting 'extras'" that have been created for use
under X-Windows, and ask yourself "Why?"
Come on, not every computer user is a humorless speed addict. Some of us
still enjoy using the machine. Try and remember that you don't have to
be bored to be doing work.

>   FACT:  the Nebraska Cornhuskers                           Phil Dietz 

Robert
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Robert K. Shull
rob@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu