On Tue, 22 May 2001, Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner wrote:
> > If you put a disk into a drive and the computer can't read it, do you WANT
> > the computer to go aghead and format it without asking?
> It depends on what you're used to. And when I read about that (in
> Microsoft's ``Programmers At Work''---great book by the way) I thought it
> was the coolest thing. I felt it made a lot of sense, but yes, I can see it
> being problematic in a heterogeneous setup, which I think is your concern.
In addition to a heterogeneous environment
http://www.xenosoft.com/fmts.html
there is also the issue that I would like a chance to try to
manually recover data before the system wipes the disk. But for many
people his system would be ideal.
> > credit for the Mac having only one button on its mouse. (because 2 or
> If it was him (and not Jobs) those are valid reasons, but it's not too
Recently (YESTERDAY) he claimed credit for the decision (in a semi-private
forum). I have no reason to doubt his word.
> -spc (I really enjoy Raskin's work though ... )
He is well worth reading/listening to, regardless of whether one agrees
with him!
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin_at_xenosoft.com
Received on Tue May 22 2001 - 22:34:27 BST