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From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: BOYCOTT APPLE
Message-ID: <819@bucket.UUCP>
Date: 24 Mar 88 07:27:15 GMT
References: <292@unicom.UUCP> <2112@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Reply-To: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Organization: Rick's Home Grown Unix; Portland, OR
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Keywords: Microsoft, HP New Wave, Xerox, Lawsuit

In article <2112@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> amlovell@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Anthony M Lovell) writes:
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<I say that we should help Apple get a monopoly on Mac interface copies.
<The fewer companies that base computer OS's on this the better.  
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<Why?    We do not live in a point and click universe!

During a discussion of designing user interfaces for the handicapped on the
Borland SIG on CIS the subject of graphical interfaces came up. The blind
users are not happy. They've got speech units that let them use a stock PC
and most programs quite easily. They have some trouble, but much of that
can be solved if programmers would follow some simple rules (like don't
park the cursor off screen somewhere, their software works better if the
real cursor tracks the program cursor).

If the "Mac"/windows/GEM/etc interface wins, they will no longer be able to
use programs without having them specially modified. Think about it for a
minute. How would you feel if you were told you couldn't run *any* new
programs that came out. That you'd have to make due with the current
versions or get a programmer to write a custom program for you?

-- 
Leonard Erickson		...!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard
CIS: [70465,203]
"I used to be a hacker. Now I'm a 'microcomputer specialist'.
You know... I'd rather be a hacker."