Re: A+/InCider article: ACK!

[uerics@mcl.ucsb.edu (Eric D. Shepherd)]

Re: "Gappies"

I agree entirely that System 6 is nothing to be scoffed at (which is
precisely what is done in the latest inCider).  The simple truth is that
the IIGS System Software does a lot of things the Mac doesn't do:

o Proportional scroll bars (how in blazes can Mac people stand those phony
scroll bars -- that's the most non-intuitive thing I've ever seen).

o Easy access to foreign disks (let's face it, AFE is _slooowwww_ and
doesn't work very well on ProDOS files).

o More intuitive Finder (IMHO.  For example, there are many more keyboard
equivalents, and these are more logical in many ways)

o Knows when to break the rules (the Mac follows the HIG obsessively,
avoiding intuitiveness just to follow those guidelines.  They're called
"guidelines", not "the law".  Having a key equivalent for "Print..." seems
intuitive to me...)

There are all kinds of other things (in fact, I've forgotten the one I was
originally going to mention... :).

The Mac is a pretty good machine, but it could certainly learn a few
things from the IIGS (and the other IIs, for that matter).

- Eric S.

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