Xref: utzoo comp.windows.misc:968 comp.sys.next:1210 comp.sys.mac:24931 comp.sys.amiga:27612 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!xanth!ukma!david From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc,comp.sys.next,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: What are menus? Message-ID: <10867@s.ms.uky.edu> Date: 10 Jan 89 21:01:03 GMT References: <3234@sugar.uu.net> <12907@steinmetz.ge.com> Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences Lines: 21 In article <12907@steinmetz.ge.com> perley@trub.steinmetz.ge.com (Donald P Perley) writes: >In article <3234@sugar.uu.net> peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: >>Well, I asked "what in the real world are pull-down menus a metaphor for?". The >>replies I've received are entertaining, if not definitive. >They represent Postit(tm) notes stuck on your rolltop desk. Nope ... you don't use Postit notes for selecting things that can be done in some environment. Pull down menu's represent ... control knob type things on mechanical devices???? -- <-- David Herron; an MMDF guy <-- ska: David le casse\*' {rutgers,uunet}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET <-- Now I know how Zonker felt when he graduated ... <-- Stop! Wait! I didn't mean to!