22 May
2001
22 May
'01
3:34 p.m.
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner wrote:
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.
Recently (YESTERDAY) he claimed credit for the decision (in a semi-private
forum). I have no reason to doubt his word.
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. 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 -spc (I really enjoy Raskin's work though ... )
He is well worth reading/listening to, regardless of whether one agrees
with him!
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com