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Re: Muchaos, and Muchchas: Mythical Month Man on Missing Metaphor (from today's 'fortune' cookie)
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: "Kline, Skip" <skipkline at earthlink dot net>, "Swinehart, Keith--Comcast" <hrnet at comcast dot net>, "Dawson, Bruce J." <jbd at codemeta dot com>, The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>, "Williams, Ross" <ross at ross dot net>, "Welch, Steven M." <swelch at complex dot org>
- Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 20:04:31 -0400
- Subject: Re: Muchaos, and Muchchas: Mythical Month Man on Missing Metaphor (from today's 'fortune' cookie)
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On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 03:03:16PM -0400, LDR wrote:
>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.
>
>---
>
>Yet one more reason to lose weight (and wait, i.e., transition from
>Cygwin to Linux).
Please go away, m'kay?
cgf