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From: pokey@well.UUCP (Jef Poskanzer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: Pull down menus.
Message-ID: <5421@well.UUCP>
Date: 12 Mar 88 14:23:43 GMT
References: <762@sandino.quintus.UUCP>
Organization: Paratheo-Anametamystikhood Of Eris Esoteric, Ada Lovelace Cabal
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In the referenced message, pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte) wrote:
}One more advantage:  they don't take up valuable screen acreage.  On
}small (low resolution) screens, this is a big advantage.

Yeah, small low-resolution screens like the Macintosh's!  Pop-ups would
have been a big win on the Mac.  So why did Jobs' crew go for pull-downs?
N.I.H. perhaps  -- they had to change something to make themselves feel
useful.

}Having using both kinds quite a bit, I find popup menus easier, and
}certainly faster, than pull-down (drop-down, window-shade, whatever)
}menus.

Ya got that right.
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Jef

              Jef Poskanzer   jef@lbl-rtsg.arpa   ...well!pokey
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