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From: werner@aecom.yu.edu (Craig Werner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!
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Date: 19 Dec 89 04:30:51 GMT
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In article <10673@encore.Encore.COM>, jdarcy@pinocchio.encore.com (Jeff d'Arcy) writes:
> kipnis@janus.Berkeley.EDU (Gary Kipnis):
> > Please give a single example of what you can do faster on a mac than on a pc.
> 
> you asked what an average person could do *faster* on a Mac.
> 
> > There 
> > probably ISN'T a single command that you can perform faster with a mac than
> > pc.
> 
> You seem to've missed the point here; the whole idea of the Mac is to get
> away from *commands*.  If you want to talk about which *activities* can be
> performed faster on Macs, see the above.
> 

	OK, there are a variety of everyday "activities" that take much
longer to accomplish on the Mac than on the PC.  I curse the Macintosh
far more than I curse the PC.  For the PC, you complain mostly about it
doesn't do.  For the Mac, I complain mostly about what it does do.  I
liked the Mac at first, now I absolutely loath and despise it.  Let's
face it: a command line is easier to write programs for, takes up less
memory (that's why IBM liked it) and once you know the secret (ah,
there's the rub), is much more efficient than heiroglyphics, which is
what icons really are.  
more effici






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	        Craig Werner   (future MD/PhD, 4.5 years down, 2.5 to go)
	     werner@aecom.YU.EDU -- Albert Einstein College of Medicine
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