On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 07:57:33AM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote:
[...]
> The global menu bar was a hack to allow the one button mouse to work.  
> Every other window system in existence at the time used pop-up  
> contextual menus exclusively. Many people who aren't used to the Mac  
> (and its wannabe copy, Windows) prefer this, because it puts the most  
> important operations right where the mouse is instead of a foot or more 
> away at the top of the screen. [...]

I bet you *loved* the Amiga then: you had to right-click to turn the screen
titlebar into a menuubar, and then select stuff off that.

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