From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <074c01c10b11$35357550$c0b7c6d4@SOMA> From: "Boyd Roberts" To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> References: <20010712110130.89EB3199C0@mail.cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] architectures MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 22:28:27 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: c89b5844-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > My suggestion was to build a different interface, > just for my mother, ... the whole point is to design a good interface. it's got nothing to do with computers. non computer savvy people use 'em all the time without even knowing. eg. mobile phones, ATMs, �wave ovens, washing machines, cd/dvd players, cable decoders etc etc ... not that i'm saying that many of these interfaces are perfect. anyway it's a bit like cars. you don't need to know how every component works or how it was designed or constructed to drive it. come to think about it you can bring it down to knives; you don't need to know anything about metals to use one.