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From: ddb@ns.network.com (David Dyer-Bennet)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Iconitis
Message-ID: <1264@ns.network.com>
Date: 11 Apr 89 20:03:32 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: ddb@ns.UUCP (David Dyer-Bennet)
Organization: Terrabit Software
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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.  I took a stopwatch to the two machines and found that it took about
:half the time to execute a command on the Mac than it did on the PC.  

Assuming, of course, that your hand is already on the mouse and it is already
pointing at the icon or menu entry you want to click on.

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