The SwyftCard

Authors

  • Len Proctor

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21432/cjlt28718

Keywords:

Productivity, Technology

Abstract

If you had to type "LOAD CODE.TOAST" into your toaster to make it work, how often would you take the time to make toast for breakfast? Jef Raskin, C.E.O. for Information Appliance, Inc. suggests that the average toaster user would not accept this type of operating system. The next logical question is, why do computer users in general and microcomputer users in particular accept a complex procedure to get their systems up and running. I suspect that the answer is, as Captain Grace Hopper would say, "its because we've always done it that way."

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Published

1986-01-05

Issue

V15(1) Winter / hiver, 1986

Section

Microware Reviews

License

Copyright (c) 1986 Len Proctor

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