On 8/30/06, Tito Mari Francis Escaño <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 8/30/06, Rogelio Serrano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > it was done with a 5 mhz computer 21 years ago. canon was stupid then > and sold it as a typewriter replacement. the technology is all there > and it has improved since. > > there was a time when the mac team had to choose among two different > design paradigms. steve jobs was so taken by the xerox design that he > chose what became the mac now. the other design went to canon and > canon bungled it. thats the design i am researching now and a lot of > people are saying that its a viable alternative to the mac wimp ui. it > is just as powerful and it requires only a fraction of effort and > resources to develop. steve jobs made a mistake. but thats only my > opinion and about many tens of retired apple engineers. Are you referring to the computer that Jef Raskin worked on in Apple as the first Macintosh prototype? Speaking of limitation and alternative UI, pls checkout: http://www.raskincenter.org/ Hope this helps. :)
Yes I know. Thats why im researching the alternative ui thing. I have also read the web and desktop ui unification paper by tim berners lee, the opendoc papers by the original designers and fresco. fresco and opendoc is actually very doable if you drop corba and use openstep distributed objects and using plain old iff instead of bento. after losing hair trying to revive openstep its a really nice way out. i did not know window managers are so tough and optimising window systems even tougher. now i wonder why people are getting shagadelic over window systems when a non windowing graphical ui can offer a better ui for a fraction of the effort? -- things i hate about my linux pc: 1. it takes more than a second to boot up 2. keeps asking about filenames and directories 3. does not remember what i was working on yesterday 4. does not remember all the changes i have ever made 5.cannot figure out necessary settings by itself
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