OT: paging MAC expert(s) --- What's a Performa?

From: Greg Ewing <greg_at_cosc.canterbury.ac.nz>
Date: Mon Nov 19 18:26:50 2001

Christopher Smith <csmith_at_amdocs.com>:

> Finder is the Macintosh shell. Best not to confuse the users with terms
> like "file manager," "shell," "interface," "front-end,"

Those are such dry, boring, Microsoft-sounding names.
Finder is so much cooler!

And it's not so much of a misnomer if you think of it
the right way. It lets *you* find things -- i.e. browse
the file system. Also, it finds an appropriate application
to launch for you when you open a document.

By the way, System 7 and later Finders do have a
"Find..." command that will let you search for files
by name.

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