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From: donn@sdchema.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: More unintentional network humor
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Date: Mon, 9-Apr-84 19:23:42 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr  9 19:23:42 1984
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This amusing little fragment is verbatim from net.ai.  [NB -- I personally
agree that users are illusions.]

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User interface maxims:
    Immediacy
        What you see is what you get (WYSIWYG)
    Modeless
        Always be able to start a new command without having to clean up
        after the old one.
    Generic
        What works in one place works in another
    User illusion
        User's make models of what goes on inside the machine.  Make the
        system in which most of the user's guesses are valid.  Not "some
        of the time it's wonderful, but most of the time you get

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