X11 bashing

Richard Tobin richard at aiai.ed.ac.uk
Sat Apr 27 01:28:55 AEST 1991


In article <558 at appserv.Eng.Sun.COM> lm at slovax.Eng.Sun.COM (Larry McVoy) writes:
>Think carefully before you flame me - think hard about the Mac.  The reason 
>that *users* like the Mac is due, in part, to the consistent look and feel
>of the user interface.  You may not like it, but you remember how it works.

Sorry, I'm going to flame you.

Of course *users* like the mac - that's why they're users.  Those of
us who tried it and found the interface completely non-intuitive went
elsewhere.

Remember how it works?  I couldn't even find out how it worked...

-- Richard
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