From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Dec 18 11:13:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A71914DBC for ; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 11:13:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt8-216-180-14-49.dialup.HiWAAY.net [216.180.14.49]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.3/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA09866 for ; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 13:13:38 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA96732 for ; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 13:13:37 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <199912181913.NAA96732@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: freebsd-chat From: David Kelly Subject: Re: windows debate In-reply-to: Message from Dan Moschuk of "Sat, 18 Dec 1999 03:22:26 EST." <19991218032226.B337@spirit.jaded.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 13:13:37 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dan Moschuk writes: > Windows was nothing new, really. I am in no means a mac advocate myself, > but they seemed to have beat Microsoft to the whole "windows idea" by > at least a few years. The difference in my eyes wasn't superior technology, > it was marketing. The 1984 Mac and current Mac interfaces are remarkably similar. You can't say that for Windows 3.1 to Win95, much less for DOS to NT. I think the original Mac user interface was very well conceived. By 1984 Unix shells and tool interfaces were also very mature. Neither has changed much since then, only gotten better. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message