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To: 1L
Try using Alt-TAB in Mac 7 and see what happens. That was available in 3.0.

Are you saying that one keyboard shortcut makes all the difference? Apple has key board shortcuts, too, you know... they've been around a lot longer than Windows keyboard shortcuts.

But REALLY funny. You pick the one command that was added in OS 8.5... jump to next running application. By the way, since the Mac has not had an ALT key since the very earliest Mac models, try using the Mac ALTernative key... the Apple/Command key.

However, while it wasn't as simple as 8.5s Command-Tab or Windows 3.0's Alt-Tab, the same functionality was available on earlier Mac OSs through the host of other keyboard shortcuts that allowed you complete control over menu items ( including a drop down menu of all running apps)....

393 posted on 03/10/2005 9:18:37 PM PST by Swordmaker
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To: Swordmaker

>> Are you saying that one keyboard shortcut makes all the difference?<<

Absolutely, and I think most windows users who had open multiple apps would agree with me. Working with multiple applications on the Mac was, at best, cumbersome.

>>Apple has key board shortcuts, too, you know... they've been around a lot longer than Windows keyboard shortcuts.<<

Howard University has been around longer than Texas A&M. Which school is more highly ranked on US News type lists?

Give it up, Steve (Jobs). This is the problem: it would be one thing if you were correcting erroneous information I posted, but nothing I said was wrong, yet you're still trying to convince me how much better the Mac is than Windows. Why don't you just resign yourself to the fact that you, in your mind, have the tool of choice and others can decide for themselves? That's exactly what I do.


400 posted on 03/11/2005 8:50:52 AM PST by 1L
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