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From: einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!
Message-ID: <1436@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Date: 20 Dec 89 13:51:58 GMT
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Reply-To: einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason)
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Some days ago I saw a video lecture about 'power users VS. casual users'
The tape is from about '87 but there are some good points in it.

The casual user is pictured as a Mackintosh user, while the power user is
displayed as a PC user.

I know that this is not quite true, some Mackintosh user are some kind of
a power user (the macintosh programmers), while some PC user don't know 
anything at all about computer.

But having used (and programmed) the PC for about 6-7 year, I consider myself
as a kind of power user.  And as such I could not stand using the Mac's 
interface with pull-down-menues and those scroll-bars (yucc).
The pull-down-menues and scroll-bars are more of a hindrance than a help
to me!!!!

Take for example some word processing program on the Mac.  There you would 
need to use the mouse (here comes another curse from me) to select Laserwriter
or Imagewriter.
On the PC you could use one program to prepare the output, and another to
interpret the output from the previous one, taking into account the difference
between printers.  (You could even use a pipe if you wanted to).

I know what I would do if I got the 'big-one' in lottery: I would buy an
UNIX system, with it's pipes, and other good stuff like that.



In my meaning the moral of this story is:

Graphics User Interface (GUI) are good for those 'casual users' that only
use the programs.  (And don't know how to type)

Line orientered Interface are good for those 'power users' that want to bend
the programs to their likings.  (And know how to type)

(For example: in lotus-123 some guy widden the column up to 80 chars and used
it as a word processing tool)


I don't want the GUIs.

But I could use some Multitasking on MS-DOS.  (When would MS-DOS give us a true
multitasking?)


-- 
I just learned a new curse: "SCROLLBAR !$#$%%#"

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