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From: kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Disabled Menu Items -- Cons and Pros
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Date: 11 Dec 88 16:56:40 GMT
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In article <11407@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton) writes:
 
<An example of where a single window is appropriate for an operation is
<the split-window option in Word.  Cutting and pasting between two
<sections of the same document is much much faster using a split window
<than it would be using two windows.  Any time I do extensive
<cut-and-paste between two separate documents I wish there were some
<way to get both docs into a split window like this!
 
>Earle R. Horton. 23 Fletcher Circle, Hanover, NH 03755

This is exactly how you get sucked into buying more and more equipment. I
was very happy with the SE at my former employers. After seeing the original
big screens at FileNet (MegaScreen), I went back and told my boss they were
harder to read than the SE screen and I didn't want one. Still, my friends
at FileNet said that it was really hard to go back to the small screen when
they took their SEs home for the weekend.

Now that I'm at FileNet, I "had to" accept a big screen. (:-) The first day I
used it, I finally understood what they meant when I pulled those two documents
up on the screen side by side in MultiFinder and happily clicked away 
transferring text from one side of the screen (one document) to the other
side (other document). On a Mac II it was just as fast as transferring text
from one part of a split window to the other - at least I was not aware of
waiting.

The moral of the story is: don't try addictive hardware until you're ready
to buy it.

Shirley kehr