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From: murat@farcomp.UUCP (Murat Konar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: A call for "3D look" (a la Next) interface guidelines from Apple
Message-ID: <142@farcomp.UUCP>
Date: 6 Feb 90 05:13:36 GMT
References: <7432@tank.uchicago.edu> <497@fsu.scri.fsu.edu>
Reply-To: murat@farcomp.UUCP (Murat Konar)
Organization: Farallon Computing Inc. Berkeley, CA
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In article <497@fsu.scri.fsu.edu> pepke@gw.scri.fsu.edu ("Eric Pepke") writes:
>What I don't want to see lost on the Mac is the feel of the interface.  
>NeXT buttons look more like buttons, but Mac buttons feel a lot more like 
>them.  When I click on a button, I don't want to wait a fifth of a second 
>for the button to light up; I want it to light up NOW.  I don't know what 
>the threshold is, but if the button lights up fast enough, it feels as if 
>I were physically pushing the button.  If it doesn't light up fast enough, 
>it feels as if I were tapping my finger on a pane of glass.  Most of the 
>Mac interface does better than this threshold for me.  HyperCard, at least 
>on a Plus or SE, and most of the NeXT interface do worse.i

Hey all you Eunuch dweebs out there who have to have "true pre-emptive
multi-tasking!"  Read the above paragraph carefully.  It illustrates the
number one argument AGAINST pre-emptive multi-tasking on the Mac.  Unless 
the dudes at Apple work some real magic in their implementation of "true pre-
emptive multi-tasking" the feel of the Mac is going to be the pits.
I have played with CuBEs and Sun's with their UIs, and they just don't
feel right.  And try running an HP9000 (16 mHz 68020) with X. You will 
regret it.  

I like the way the Mac feels and couldn't care less about being able to 
format a disk while calculating Pi to 73000 decimal palces.  Those of 
you (programmer types) who can't tell a pointer from a handle should 
just stay over there where you are.

There, I feel better.

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