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From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Subject: Re: Retro-Computing!
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Date: Sat, 1 Apr 1995 10:28:37 GMT
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|   Modern Operating Systems attempt to adapt to the human's needs.  Old 
|   Operating Systems require the human to adapt to them.

they differ in the amount and kind of adaptation required.  "intuitive" is
a function of your knowledge and experience.  I'd venture that different
kinds of people have different kinds of "intuitive".  e.g., I want to talk
to my computer in a language, however foreign at first, provided that it's
systematic and predictable.  I don't _want_ to point and click and have to
wait for the computer to respond me before I can make the next move, as it
were.  I have not yet found the graphical user interface that allows me to
extend my natural multitasking to the computer.  I may think it does not
exist, by virtue of accepting "click" events in "windows" where some code
is supposed to be set up to to accept it.  I want a click-ahead GUI.

#<Erik>
-- 
the greatest obstacle to communication
is the illusion that it has already taken place
