homemade computer for fun and experience... - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

4 Apr 1999

This is a sad but true artifact of the GUI.  The best PC/Win95 backup
program I have trips all over itself because it wants a human response to a
query about whether or not to backup a file created by the backup program.
It's not a BIG file, and it doesn't hurt having it there, nor would it hurt
if it were left out.  The default, however, and you can't get away from
that, is to ask.  I surely wish that were the only such case.

Dick

-----Original Message-----
From: CLASSICCMP(a)trailing-edge.com &lt;CLASSICCMP(a)trailing-edge.com&gt;
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
&lt;classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu&gt;
Date: Sunday, April 04, 1999 5:50 PM
Subject: Re: homemade computer for fun and experience...

...
 >Keep in mind, folks, that some of us remember when
there simply weren't <snip>
...

miscommunication. 
And a graphic display is a sure way to make certain that a human is
necessary at every step of processing, making it difficult to impossible
to automate many tasks.  You can't search images for the occurence
of a particular object.  Graphics are the first step to the point-and-drool
interface you find on just about every computer these days, where quality of
...
 presentation is emphasized over quality of content.

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