ee163ht@sdccsu3.UUCP (06/15/83)
We have a computer room here on campus with about 40 h19s. On several of them,
(i've never bothered doing a survey, so i don't know if it is *all*), typing
fg
results in a ^[S going along for the ride. This is one of the function key
codes (f1).
Has anyone else ever experienced this problem?
Alyn Fratkin
UC San Diegofostel@ncsu.UUCP (06/28/83)
Don't be so hard on the "Engineers". When's the last time YOU produced
a program you were really proud of when your boss wanted it done about
a week ago, using half the resources you need, and conforming to specs
written by some Pig Headed Pseudo Programmer in a marketing position,
using a language you thought inappropriate?
The articl about the automobile tickled me because I had considered
submitting an article making the exact oppisite point! I consider cars
of the late 50's thru mid-late 60's to have been the finest driving
machines produced. There has been a decline since that time. And I
don't think it is the fault of the engineers. My old (RIP) 67 chevy was
much better designed from Human engineering point of view (as well as ...)
I don't like control stalks with a dozen differnt twists slide controls
and I don't like digital speedometers, and I don't like idiot lights
(lights for ...) and I don't like menu driver software and I dont like
vertically mounted radios and and and.
I do like speed controls and a variety of things that have been ADDED
since the 60's. I do not buy the basic premise that as things evolve
towards being more "human" they reduce the number of thing-a-ma-jigs.
I think that is the thinking behind menu systems, and I find those to
be very in-human (unless I am not a .... nah).
----GaryFostel----