AZ>On 2014-06-13, 11:48 AM, mark lewis -> Sean Dennis wrote:   
      
   AZ> ml> On Thu, 12 Jun 2014, Sean Dennis wrote to TOM WALKER:   
      
   AZ> TW>> Well MS did not offer an Upgrade veersion like they did for Win   
   AZ> TW>> 95/98/ME/Vista, Which was my point early in this thread. And as   
   AZ> TW>> you said above there is a "Stop Gap" measure but requires jumping   
   AZ> TW>> through some hoops instead of simply instaling an MS "Upgrade"   
   AZ> TW>> Disk.   
      
   AZ> SD>> Microsoft doesn't make things easy if they don't have to. :)   
      
   AZ> ml> that's funny! especially in light of the GUI was supposed to dumb thing   
   AZ> ml> down enough for the average joe to be able to use a computer reliably ;   
      
   AZ>While computers remain more difficult in 'real' life than one might imagine   
   AZ>watching TV commercials, GUIs brought about a major increase in usability.   
      
   AZ>Think back to, say, the late 1980s - a typical MS-DOS user would know enough   
   AZ>be able to start up Word Perfect or Lotus 1-2-3, and to make use of that sin   
   AZ>application - typically helped by a command cheat-sheet taped to their keybo   
   AZ>(around the F-keys perhaps).   
      
   AZ>Now the cheat-sheets are (mostly) gone and folks are able to use (perhaps) 3   
   AZ>programs: a browser, an email program, and MS Word.   
      
   AZ>And it's now relatively straightforward to quit a program (though new Mac us   
   AZ>typically minimize programs by mistake thinking they've quit them)... I   
   AZ>remember telling folks that the key Word Perfect command to memorize was F7   
   AZ>quit.   
      
   yuo can say that again. I rembember when I worked at the local VA   
   medical senter back in the 80's in the engineering department they were   
   mostly a DOS PC oriented. the Anesthesia Department though favored the   
   MAC and I rembember the first tiem playing with a MAC Lisa how great   
   it was to use the GUI instead fo the command line.   
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