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From: clive@drutx.ATT.COM (Clive Steward)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: A/UX window systems, Mac tool...( Hum Interface) (calibration)
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Date: 5 Mar 88 22:07:33 GMT
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From article <884@daisy.UUCP>, by klee@daisy.UUCP (Ken Lee):
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> I think you're missing something here.  
...
> I'd hate to see someone fly a plane (or even drive a car) if he could look out
> the window or look at his guages, but not both at the same time.

I don't mean to pick on Ken, because he's not the only one.

But think that some of the work$tation users who are in this discussion 
are missing very important information.  You can see everything at the same 
time.  Please try a Mac with Multifinder.

I am using one now.  It is nothing like working with Switcher, which
is probably what you are thinking of. (Switcher was fine in its day, too).

There is absolutely no difference between this and the 'generic workstation'
model which has been around for 10+ years in various forms.  You can have as 
many (overlapping, movable, sizeable, etc.) windows as you can find readable 
screen for; you can see events changing in all of them, at the same (sliced,
just as with *nix etc.) time.  It does cost less.  The slicing is grainier, 
though usually not noticeably so.

Only one window allows input at a time.  I have never seen another system 
otherwise.  The menu bar tracks the input-able window.  This is easy to use.  

There are full facilities for pop-up menus anywhere on the screen, and
adjuncts such as heirarchical menus; have been for years now.  Many programs 
use them, including the MFMenus init which I am using now, which makes the 
most used parts of the finder interface (layer selection, DA's) to a
pop-up w/hierarchy menu anywhere on the screen, in any program.

It works very well, and I think you would like it, if you tried it.


Clive Steward