merchant@dartvax.UUCP (Peter Merchant) (08/28/87)
In article <4854@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>, Mike "My watch has windows" Meyer writes: > In article <2731@husc6.UUCP> fry@huma1.UUCP (David Fry) writes: > ...They must envy its fonts, its desk > <accessories, its clipboard, and its large application base. > > Let's see about this. Accessories. Not needed on the Amiga; > multitasking covers for them. I've read quite a bit recently about the death of desk accessories, most of which is premature, I think. I've been dealing, as of late with MS-Windows, multitasking in MSDOSland. I've also played with the Amiga a little. I have to admit that for simple tasks, I prefer desk accessories because they're faster for me. When I need to know a phone number and I'm using MS-Windows, well, I double click on the DOS icon down at the bottom of the screen. The DOS directory shows up. I find the Phone Book application and start it up. Then I can find out what so-and-so's phone number is. The Amiga is similar, as would be MultiFinder. (In defense of Windows, I have to admit that I can create a list of applications that I want started immediately and put on the icon bar down below, so I could just double-click on the icon bar. Unfortunately, doing this uses up memory, which PCs are short of already.) With a DA, I go up to my Apple menu and select "Phone Book." Tah dah. Instant phone book. MacWeek had an article on MultiFinder eliminating the need for DAs. I hope not. They're the most convenient way of getting at those little utilities that I keep on my Macintosh Desktop instead of my real desktop. -- "It still hurts Peter Merchant (merchant@dartvax.UUCP) but the pain has shifted."