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From: riks@athena.UUCP (Rik Smoody)
Newsgroups: net.cog-eng
Subject: Re: default menu item selection
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Date: Wed, 13-Feb-85 16:26:58 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 13 16:26:58 1985
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> > 	>.... -- it's much more convenient than hunting around a desk 
> > 	>for a file folder, 
> > In one sense this is the point I am trying to make. Using pums is sort
> > of like hunting around a small desk. On a big desk you can spread things
> > out and find what you're looking for faster.
> > 
> > Keeping organized wears me out. 
> > 
> Of course, you can see what will happen in 5 years:
>   Everyone will be dependent on overlaid windows on high-resolution
>   screens for all their activities.  The result will be *lots* of
>   windows open at once, so that it is very hard to find the one you're
>   looking for.  Someone will invent a system with a "window finder":
>     all you have to do is type in the name of the window, and that
>     window moves to the top.  If there is no such window, one is created
>     for the corresponding function.  Soon, someone will realize
>     that windows aren't necessary, because one can just as easily 
>     type the name every time.
> That's called progress.
> -- 
> 
> Jon Mauney    mcnc!ncsu!mauney    C.S. Dept, North Carolina State University

Doesn't happen that way in practice.  The folks at the labs have their
individual styles of laying out their windows juast as they have their
styles of spreading out their desks.  There are some fastidious folks
who have just one paper on their desks at any given time, the rest in
file drawers.  Their screens look ridiculously neat.  Just one or two
windows open at  atime, the rest hiding in the corner.

Then there are us normal folks: a bunch of windows overlapping every which
way.  So, what's the problem remembering that your "rogue" window is over
on the right and the "vi" window is over on the left?
It's just like journals on the desk.

Rik Smoody, Tektronix