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From: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc,comp.sys.next,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: What are menus?
Message-ID: <5666@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jan 89 20:45:09 GMT
References: <3234@sugar.uu.net> <12907@steinmetz.ge.com> <10867@s.ms.uky.edu>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <10867@s.ms.uky.edu> david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) writes:
>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.
>
>Pull down menu's represent ... control knob type things on mechanical
>devices????

	No, I've got it: they represent a series of infrared remotes hanging
above your head.  Just pull one down and use it....  :-) :-)

-- 
Randell Jesup, Commodore Engineering {uunet|rutgers|allegra}!cbmvax!jesup