Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!m.cs.uiuc.edu!p.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies From: gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Fwd: Xerox - Apple Computer Suit -2 Message-ID: <126900122@p.cs.uiuc.edu> Date: 20 Dec 89 17:39:16 GMT Lines: 21 Nf-ID: #R: I remember hearing that in System 7.0, printers will appear on the > desktop like a drive. To print a file, you'll just drag it to the > printer. This is the way you print documents on the STAR. The amusing thing about STAR is that the user interface is *too consistent*. If you spend months composing a document, then "move" it to the printer, it gets printed AND DELETED. After all, you said "move", not "copy" it to the printer! This hits novices all the time; I remember the User Interface people as being too stubborn to change their semantics. ------------------------ Also, about "stealing" people. A friend once put it this way, "After a while, the muck you've coded builds up around you, and you flounder in your self-made mess. At some point, programmers yearn for a clean sheet of paper. About the only way to get one is to quit and go to a new company."