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From: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block)
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Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future)
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Date: 22 Jun 91 12:25:51 GMT
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From article <1991Jun22.071317.26217@neon.Stanford.EDU>, by torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie):
>   Or you make it open enough that the power user CAN get these features
> if he wants them, but by default, it supports a more intuitive/user friendly
> method for the average user.

I had to wring necks on my Mac to get the power out of it I needed in
Finder, and I would have died and been reborn as a small tree frog to
have a good shell like the Amiga does.  And with WB2.0, I never use
the shell.  That says, at least to me, that the new workbench gives me
as much power as the shell used to.  It's raw power that's important,
not the power you can coax out of it if you babysit your computer for
awhile.

>   It really has nothing to do with the OS (actually the Finder GUI,
> which is hardly the OS).  It's the application that doesn't want you
> to open files it wasn't designed to handle.  So go rag on the 
> application writer.  For applications designed to do this sort of 
> thing, (e.g. ResEdit, DiskDoubler etc), the ability to handle any
> type of file is already built in by the programmer.

Okay, I tend to think of the OS as the Finder/WorkBench.  Bad habit.  :)

True.  I was under the understanding that finder limited you to
loading into applications only those documents to which it was the
creator...  My mistake.

>   It could well be a cold potato by the time that happens.

I expect that I'll have the support I'm looking for real soon.  A few
more boards, a few more 24bit programs, and my mac is gone.  Putting
my workbench on a 24bit display isn't important to me right now.  I
would like it, but it's not dreadfully necessary.  I just need to be
able to use whatever I pick well.  And things are getting better by
the week.

>>Like I said, deal with what you do, or have the os stand over your
>>shoulder.  Frankly, NOBODY stands over MY shoulder.  :)
> 
>   Oftentimes, a guide over your shoulder can help prevent even the
> experienced user from making mistakes.  

So you either learn from your mistakes, and become a more powerful
user, or you have the OS guide you.  I've made my share of mistakes,
and I can even know laugh about them, even though at the time I could
have screamed.  The solutions are simple if you open your eyes and
look for them...  But if you don't have to look then why bother?  My
mistakes have made me a better user.  A mac user can't say that...
not as much, anyways.

Greg

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