On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 02:13:43PM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote:

> Perhaps "store" is a better word than "save", but I can't
> see how you can claim that the operation itself isn't useful.
> How else would you want to preserve a document for the future?

Why on earth would the computer not do this for you?

> They are correct in this. Disk storage is a kind of (magnetic) memory.

No they're not, in any meaningful sense.

> but it is far from the only kind. It doesn't matter much if users
> don't understand about RAM.  They need to know that what's

Hah, yes it does! The File->Save paradigm forces them to know about RAM.

> Good.  You're making it harder by not explaining what
> you want instead of "save".  I'll read the book,

You're assuming it makes sense to have something that's "instead of
Save".

regards
john

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