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From: leonardr@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: New System icon
Message-ID: <46100151@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 17 May 88 14:09:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!leonardr    May 17 09:09:00 1988


keith@uhccux.UUCP(Keith Kinoshita) writes in comp.sys.mac

>In article <340@dcc1.UUCP> john@dcc1.UUCP (John Cothran) writes:
>[stuff deleted]
>>  What about different icons on each machine (I realize that this could cause
>>some problems for new users who wouldn't know wheather or not the System file
>>that looked like an SE should be booted on a Plus or a II)?
>
>	Why complicate the system both visually and as a matter of 
>programming simplicity for something as dubious as a visual representation for 
>hardware recognition? I thought the whole idea of the Mac environment was 
>to hide the hardware level, and make everything as simple as possible.
>	Come to think of it, Apple should have standardized a CDEV and
>an INIT icon for the mac as well. 

	Well, Apple has done something like ths in 6.0, but not with icons.  In 
Finder 6.1 when viewing by name/date,etc any CDEV will be listed as a 'Control
Panel Document' and any INIT will be wil listed as a 'Startup Document'. How's
that??


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