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From: mrk@wuphys.UUCP (Mark R. Kaufmann)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Iconitis
Message-ID: <664@wuphys.UUCP>
Date: 10 Apr 89 14:19:44 GMT
References: <1930@dataio.Data-IO.COM> <11555@lanl.gov> <17376@cisunx.UUCP> <28558@apple.Apple.COM> <7898@pyr.gatech.EDU> <28679@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: mrk@wuphys.UUCP (Mark R. Kaufmann)
Organization: Dept. of Physics, Washington Univ., St. Louis, MO, USA
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In article <28679@apple.Apple.COM> austing@Apple.COM (Glenn L. Austin) writes:
>In article <7898@pyr.gatech.EDU> is813cs@pyr.UUCP (Cris Simpson) writes:
>>Anytime I have had to use a Mac, I always asked,
>>"Why is it so slow?."
>
>Compare the time it takes to type "DIR<return>" with double-click.  If you
>notice, it takes a lot less time to double-click than it does to type the
>command....
>| Glenn L. Austin             | The nice thing about standards is that      | 
>| Apple Computer, Inc.        | there are so many of them to choose from.   | 
>| Internet: austing@apple.com |       -Andrew S. Tanenbaum                  |
>
Compare the time it takes to pick up your right hand from the home position
on the keyboard, which is its natural place :-) when using a computer,
finding the mouse, moving it where you want, double-clicking, then moving
your hand back to the keyboard.
I'd bet typing four characters is faster by a factor of ten.
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