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From: Max Eskin <kurtkilg_at_geocities.com>
Date: Wed Dec 16 15:07:26 1998

>I thought about 'hide' in the sense of not showing technical terms
>where they are not needed. For example, with Win you still have a
>FD named A: and a HD named C: (or with the Amiga df0: etc.)

That's what I'm asking. How do you save to floppy on a Daybreak?

>Or think about file extensions ... etc.

Well, file extensions is questionable. In MS-DOS and relatives, these are
very severely misused. On a Macintosh, they're hidden from the user, and all
nice and neat. Until you want to change something, when you regret that it's
all hidden. In Linux, there are no extensions as far as the system is
concerned, and I must say, I don't miss them at all.


>One of the best developments of the last years was the Newton.


Yes, I sort of like that thing too. I had about an hour of experience with
an e-Mate (a Newton with a bigger screen and a built-in keyboard), and
though it was somewhat disorienting (there is no distinction between an open
file and a stored file, so I was trying to close the word processor for
about 10 minutes before I realized that the concept didn't exist), I thought
it was pretty neat.

>systems available for free (like Smalltalk Express


Yes, I downloaded this last night. Do you think it's any good?

>And classic Smaltalk implementations can run on a 4.77 MHz 8088
>with graphical environment in a speed good enough to test it.
>And on a 386sx with lets say 2 MB mem its a rocket :)


Cool! Are any still available?

>Gruss
>Hans
>
>--
>Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut

>HRK

So what does that mean?
Received on Wed Dec 16 1998 - 15:07:26 GMT