| Re: Other IDL / Mac advantages [message #27493] |
Wed, 24 October 2001 13:03  |
Ken Prager
Messages: 4
Registered: October 2001
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In article <3BD70BFC.1A56F25F@noaa.gov>,
Paul van Delst <paul.vandelst@noaa.gov> wrote:
> Ron Syml wrote:
>>
>> Apple employs a team of cognitive psychologists who understand how people
>> interact with computers. This is the core reason that Apple operating
>> systems
>> have books defining how applications must behave and how a gui is to be
>> presented. The fact that RSI is choosing to ignore this and develop IDL
>> based
>> on an antiquated/illogical unix interface is disappointing to many mac
>> users.
>> Microsoft's windows API doesn't define the same standard which is why each
>> windows developer can use different control/function keys, menus, and
>> widgets
>> in a windows application.
>
> This may be a bit off-topic.
>
> Forgive my lack of knowledge about Macs (only used one once) but given that
> they are easy and
> simple to use (I'll take your word for it since every other Mac user I know
> says the same
> thing) how come they aren't the top selling system? Is it simply because
> Apple made a decision
> a million years ago not to go the IBM route and license (or whatever) the
> hardware to all and
> sundry? If so, it certainly kept the Apple gene pool untainted but at what
> cost? I don't think
> I have ever studied/worked anywhere where Macs were seriously considered
> because they were
> simply so much more expensive than equivalent PC type systems. That may not
> be true anymore,
> but now there is a large number of folks out there that are, uh..., "attuned"
> to the Windows
> environment.
>
> My one personal experience with a Mac was many many years ago when the person
> showing me how to
> use it (my up-to-then experience wholly with VAX-VMS and Unix systems) stared
> blankly at me
> when I asked how to open up a term window so I could hunt around the system
> looking at stuff.
> It's a really stupid thing, but I get sorta uncomfortable when I *don't* have
> the ability to
> delete the root partition (ah, memories). Probably a human-computer
> inferiority complex or
> something....
>
> paulv
I'm not even going to comment on the Mac v. PC stuff. However, Paul,
you'll be happy to know that with the advent of Mac OS X you may open
all of the term windows your heart desires and delete all of the root
partition files you wish to--however, I'm glad I'm not your sys admin.
Ken P.
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