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Re: uninstallation

In reply to Steve Cohen's message sent 1/23/98 5:43 PM:

>It's an excellent point you raise, and frankly, I spend so much of my life 
>in the
>Windows
>orbit that I really don't have any idea what the answer is.  How do the 
>others do
>it better?  I will leave aside Macintosh which maybe has an easier time of it
>given the tighter linkage between hardware and software. 

The tighter linkage between hardware and software on the Macintosh is not 
the reason why application removal is uncomplicated on the Mac. These 
operations are relatively easy to perform because they were _designed_ to 
be easy. This is strictly an OS issue, so far as I can tell.

Sorry to be such a humbug on this question, but we _do_ have an example 
of how a commercial OS can make basic maintenance tasks non-arcane. Why 
leave it aside?

   Mitch Stone
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