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From: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: net.micro.68k,net.micro.mac,net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Re: BYTE issue of September 86 focuses on the 68000
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Date: Thu, 18-Sep-86 16:37:55 EDT
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In an article daveh@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes:
>
>The whole point of the article was that the Amiga and MAC user interfaces
>were performing exactly the same functions

But they were performing those functions in isolation ( I assume we are
still talking about changing window size.  If not, forget the rest of
this posting ).

A Mac program is event driven.  It consists of a loop that asks the
system for events, and then processes them.  If all your program is
doing is sticking up a window ( i.e., no menus, no dialogs, etc ),
then there is extra work because you have to write the event loop.

If your program is doing real stuff, then dealing with windows is
just one more case statement in the event loop and is no big deal.

Besides, most programmers don't have to write this extra stuff more
than once or twice.  For example, whenever I start to write something
on the Mac, I start with my most similar previous program, and change
it.

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