Re: blah blah blah

On Jun 30, 9:49?pm, Josh Hill <userepl...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 19:09:27 -0700, $Zero <zeroi...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jun 29, 9:49?pm, $Zero <zeroi...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jun 29, 10:41?am, Josh Hill <userepl...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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And Macs back then (?) were really pretty sucky. Amazingly slow,
unexpandable, even flakier than Windows 95.

you must be joking, surely.

in my experience, all the way from the early eighties, Mac has always
provided a better operating system than DOS and Windows, FFS.

for instance, just before Windows 95, the Windows desktop was two-
dimensional -- you couldn't even put a folder icon inside a folder
icon.

actually, IIRC, there weren't any folder icons at all!

you could only make file icons.

yikes.

no, i was right the first time.

you could only make folder icons one level deep.

check out this windows desktop snapshot picture from wikipedia for a
horrifying blast from the past:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/c995r
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Windows_3.11_workspace.png

talk about a sucky graphical interface, huh?

Why would it matter?

only because flexible nesting is essential in a GUI.

I still use the tree for most files, and an
autohide toolbar with large icons for launching common apps -- not all
that different from what I set up with Windows 3.5x.

i've always made the most of the desktop -- organizing it logically
and intuitively into a zillion sections (made up of various shortcuts
to folders, files, and applications) instead of alphabetically, etc.,
like a tree view does.

sure, the autohide toolbars are good for a lot of stuff, and i usually
put them to optimal use as well, but that's way too limited for the
scope of my interests and computer needs.

i mean, that's what the desktop is for, FFS.

is yours mostly a soothing photograph of some sort?

my main computer's desktop is covered from one end to the other (and
from top to bottom) with customized shortcut icons.


Windows 2.0

all on one 3.5 floppy, IINM.

Windows wasn't really useful until 3.5.

Windows for Workgroups is when it finally started to accelerate a bit.

-$Zero...

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