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From: barnett@vdsvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Better Windows? (LONG)
Message-ID: <1460@vdsvax.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 13-May-87 09:56:16 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 13 09:56:16 1987
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Reply-To: barnett@ge-crd.arpa  (Bruce G Barnett)
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In article <565@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> chekmate@artemis.UUCP (Adam Kao) writes:
>		- What use is a window that is half-hidden?  Why would
>		  anyone want to see only the left half of a document?

More to the point is looking at the top half of a document, while
typing in another document. Reading the Unix Manual pages, or
looking at example source code while editing is very nice on a Sun.

In fact, I like typing in on a window that is UNDER another window at
times. 

example: input to a program while looking at as much of the source as
possible. (Why on earth did it output THAT? :-)

>		- Do we need to move windows arbitrarily like pieces
>		  of paper?  What difference does it make whether a
>		  window is a few pixels to the left or right?

Sometimes I move my Sun windows around to get the maximum usage
possible. This often means butting windows together. 



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