My ability to word process was never faster than when I used XyWrite II+ on MSDOS. The entire program fit on one floppy disk and loaded itself completely into memory. I think my efficiency was cut by about 50% with the advent of Windows. Prettier and more fun, but slower and much, much more likely to crash.
Jeffery On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:46 PM, John Sessoms <jsessoms...@nc.rr.com> wrote: > From: CheekyGeek >> >> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: >> >>> > Apple is very good at making it easy to do the things that they think >>> > you >>> > should do. It can be very challenging however if you think differently. >> >> While this is a fairly obvious troll line, I must respectfully disagree. >> Anyone who lived through (and with) the popularization of computers >> among the masses must remember what it was like to learn DOS and to be >> fumbling through a manual to learn the cryptic command that one must >> type (without syntax errors) to accomplish ANYTHING before the >> Macintosh. In contrast, upon seeing the first Macintosh running in an >> Office supply store without knowing anything at all about it, one >> could walk up... grab the single button mouse (which I had never seen >> before) and it was immediately OBVIOUS what one would do with it. >> Click, select, drag. One could easily learn to use both applications >> MacWrite and MacPaint without ever cracking a book. It was a paradigm >> changer: a computer which worked virtually as you thought it should. >> > > I don't consider it such a "obvious troll line". Learning to deal with a > command line wasn't that hard. It was a bigger deal regaining speed when the > GUIs took over. What I used to be able to do with just a few typed commands > now took a lot longer opening and clicking menus. Especially with the > overhead of painting the screen. -- Jeffery L. Smith New Orleans, LA -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
