Friends,
I've stayed out of the affray over whether mice or command line entry is
faster. I do remember reading some of the research when it come out,
however, and one thing I remember from the research is that the test
subjects were drawn from across the spectrum of user abilities, from
brand new, never before touched a computer, through power users, and I
further remember that the results were that while for most people, mice
were faster and more intuitive, but that when it came to power users,
their productivity was higher with a command line (keyboard) interface
than with a mouse.
Microsoft and Apple both had a vested interest in selling as many
machines as they could, and since the power user was a small part of the
potential market, the idea was to make the user interface as easy for
everyone else as possible.
ns
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