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From: taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett)
Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future)
Message-ID: <1991Jun16.214309.18102@news.iastate.edu>
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References: <30@ryptyde.UUCP> <1126@stewart.UUCP> <1991Jun10.071908.8353@neon.Stanford.EDU>,<1991Jun15.180607.10502@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1991 21:43:09 GMT
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In article <1991Jun15.180607.10502@sugar.hackercorp.com>, peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <1991Jun10.071908.8353@neon.Stanford.EDU> torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) writes:
>> jerry@polygen.uucp (Jerry Shekhel) writes:
>> >The only real Apple innovation is the idea to steal the ideas of others.  
>
>>   Show me the pull-down menus on the Xerox Star.
>
>Oh, that's right. Apple did add some negative value to the Star concept,
>like double-clicking instead of drag-and-drop, the one-button mouse, and
>pull-down menus. One thing I was hoping that 2.0 would support was a
>de-Macification of the workbench: pop-up menus and drag-and-drop application
>launching would be a vast improvement. I guess you could add popup menus
>with a SetFunction, but how about Drag-and-drop?

   I don't really understand the value of "drag-and-drop".  Amiga users
often complain about how, on the MAC, you have to drag the disk icon to
the trashcan in order to get your disk out of the drive.  It would seem
to me that drag-and-drop would be the same hinderance, but with respect
to launching applications.  

>-- 
>Peter da Silva.   `-_-'   <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
>                   'U`    "Have you hugged your wolf today?"

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