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Bruce Ediger  
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 More options Apr 20 1995, 3:00 am
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy, comp.os.linux.misc, comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.sys.mac.advocacy
From: bedi...@teal.csn.org (Bruce Ediger)
Date: 1995/04/20
Subject: Re: Using icons to start programs
0136...@dragon.acadiau.ca (Kevin Swan) wrote:

:Wow.  I can't believe I just saw the words "UNIX" and "intuitive" used the
:the same sentences *twice in a row!!!*  UNIX has the honor of holding the
:title "Least intuitive OS" on the market.  There is precious little
:intuitive about UNIX (or Linux, same idea).  I use Motif on an X-term with

You are wrong, ISPF breath!  Basically, the only "intuitive" interface
is the nipple.  After that, it's all learned.  If you mean "intuitive"
to be "of or like MS-DOS and Windows", or "of and like Mac", then you
may have a point, but only if you ignore the "legacy" systems out there.
CDC OSes are/were extremely unlike MS-DOS, or Unix, or Mac.

:Anyway, the point is, that the Mac is much more intuitive.  Its so cute,

Bullshit.  THe Mac is more "intuitive" if you define "intuitive" to mean
of or like a Mac.  After watching my newly-retired dad spend two weeks
learning how to make a new folder, it became obvious that "intuitive"
mostly means "what the writer or speaker of intuitive likes".

If you claim some objective definition of "intuitive", then lets hear it,
and letssee some citations for studies that prove it to the Mac to be so.
Or, for that matter, Windows to be so.

Like I said, the only immediately obvious example of "intuitive"
is the human nipple.  At least to other humans.  I'm sure calves
would be at a loss.


 
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