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Muchaos, and Muchchas: Mythical Month Man on Missing Metaphor (from today's 'fortune' cookie)
- From: LDR <lee at veritech dot com>
- To: "Welch, Steven M." <swelch at complex dot org>, "Kline, Skip" <skipkline at earthlink dot net>, "Williams, Ross" <ross at ross dot net>, "Dawson, Bruce J." <jbd at codemeta dot com>, "Swinehart, Keith--Comcast" <hrnet at comcast dot net>, Talk Amongst Yourselves <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 15:03:16 -0400
- Subject: Muchaos, and Muchchas: Mythical Month Man on Missing Metaphor (from today's 'fortune' cookie)
- Reply-to: lee at veritech dot com
- Reply-to: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
The so-called "desktop metaphor" of today's workstations is instead an
"airplane-seat" metaphor. Anyone who has shuffled a lap full of papers
while
seated between two portly passengers will recognize the difference --
one can
see only a very few things at once.
-- Fred Brooks, Jr.
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Yet one more reason to lose weight (and wait, i.e., transition from
Cygwin to Linux).
--
Me, of Merry Meeting, in Merrimack