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From: magik@chinet.UUCP (Ben Liberman)
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Subject: Re: Porting UNIX Applications to the Mac
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Date: Thu, 25-Sep-86 02:54:49 EDT
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In article <15530@mordor.ARPA> jdb@mordor.UUCP (John Bruner) writes:
>
>A mouse-based interface is appropriate for many situations and users.
>I claimed that a keyboard-based alternative is appropriate for some.
>That is all I said.  (I find some support for my opinion in the
>existence of command-key equivalents on the Mac and their popularity
>among so-called "power users.")
>
I agree with you totally.  To support either one to the exclusion of the
other is a waste of time (at many levels:-).
  One of the joys of the mac user interface is it allows the novice and expert
to begin to operate effectively with no previous experience.  As you learn some
of the shortcuts you get to do the same things FASTER (having a larger 
and less obvious command vocabulary).
  At the novice level you can get around slower with your much limited 
vocabulary, but you CAN get around.
 I've run in to some who seem to believe that there is something WRONG with
command-key enhancement of the commonly percieved "mac interface".

 
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Ben Liberman

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