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From: jmann@bigbootay (Jim Mann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: User interface(was Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!)
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Date: 20 Dec 89 17:54:32 GMT
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>> Neither the Mac nor the PC are even close to
>> ideal in this regard.  Apple had a great opportunity to make an ideal
>> system with the Mac, but they blew it by forcing the mouse on everyone.

>There is nothing in the Mac that forces any application to use the mouse.  
>In the early days of the Mac, quite a few developers did quick ports of 
>their PC applications, with type-in interfaces, to the Mac.  Guess what?  
>Nobody would buy them.  SOMEBODY wants the mouse whole lot!

But the MAC does force you to use the mouse from system level. While this
is nice much of the time, it would be nice in some cases to be able to
use the keyboard.

>> Sure, lots of applications will give you a choice in many commands, but
>> this is not part of the standard interface -- you can't even start up
>> the application without using the mouse.  This is a bug, not a feature.

>No, friend, this is a feature that you don't like.

How is the lack of a feature (lack of a command line interface) a feature?
It may not be a big negative but it certainly isn't a positive thing
to not allow users to do more stuff from the command line.