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From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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Subject: RE: Intuitive interface - was RE: vi 
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 01:45:38 -0700
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu [mailto:hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu]On Behalf Of
>dochawk@psu.edu
>Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 9:03 AM
>To: Ted Mittelstaedt
>Cc: David Leimbach; questions@FreeBSD.ORG
>Subject: Re: Intuitive interface - was RE: vi 
>
>
>ted tumbled,
>
>
>> I put my 3 year old son in front of a PC running Windows.  He happily
>> started
>> pushing buttons at random.  I then put him in front of a Macintosh.  He
>> pushed the
>> same buttons randomly.  So much for intuition.
>
>???  You put him in front of a flawed copy of the mac interface, and 
>then in front of a flawed evolution of the same interface.  
>

Naw, the same thing happened when I put him in front of an OS/2 desktop.


Ted Mittelstaedt                      tedm@toybox.placo.com
Author of:          The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide
Book website:         http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com



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