Or - this touches an intriguing point:
> Give a newbie, that dont want to learn how to use DOS a shell like Norton
> Commander or DOSShell. They hate it! I had a few discussions from a few
> Newbies, all of them in the end went to Win3.11 ... "ok. its slow. it
> crash. but it look better and easier to use.".
The "reason" for all this seems to me coming from somewhere "outside"
of the logic/use of the (still, relatively new) comuter application.
As you seem to work at a school lab, perhaps you could think of a
pedogogic experiment ? An arrangement maybe in the way of:
(a) a Win-set up 'puter without mouse
(b) a mouse-driven DOS-shell
(I don't use any but I think the better shells offer that)
(c) a Mac without mouse
Then give the same task to do on each of the sets.
Wonder what the reactions would be. It could be interesting to analyse
the "kids'"/newbies' remarks, the way they express their "feeling" of
the situation.
A next/advanced step could be to build in some "accident" into the
task, something that makes it to not work, produces a hang-up or the
like. And then look at the various attempts how they try to get around
or over this.
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