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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
- Subject: Re: Completing tasks under the desktop metaphor Re: Where the mac really wins
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:46:41 GMT
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- In article <id.5JYV._AH@ferranti.com> peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
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- >Personally, I find the Mac model where applications have this strange undead
- >life after you've quit working on the file associated with them quite
- >disturbing. I feel it VERY strongly violates the desktop metaphor, and
- >I'm frequently caught out when there's some application lying around in
- >the background eating up memory with no visual indication that it exists.
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- Its not only annoying, it can cause real problems. Novice users (whose
- habits I have been studying for a while, since I come into contact
- with huge numbers of them) will tend to sit down at a Mac without re-
- starting it or checking to see if anything else is running. Conse-
- quently, one of the more common problem you have is not being able to
- print, or bring up chooser, or any one of myriad other problems inclu-
- ding system crashes due to lack of memory. These apps, while in their
- "undead" state, will be taking up their fixed stack of RAM. When you
- kill them the RAM is still fragmented so if you're trying to open a
- big app it won't open. Even I do it sometimes 9-)
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