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From: goetz@cs.buffalo.edu (Phil Goetz)
Subject: Re: New/Old Games
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Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 00:41:29 GMT
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In article <FLEE.94Sep23074832@simula.cse.psu.edu>,
Felix Lee <flee@cse.psu.edu> wrote:

>I found it at gmd.de.  Haven't sat down at a PC to play with it yet.
>But offhand, I want to say, if it really is easier to type commands,
>then it wasn't done right. :)

Well, first of all realize that Infocom did typing commands entirely
wrong.  They forced you to go out to 6 or 7 letters, ALL THE TIME,
even for words like "examine" that you needed constantly.
Better to be like VMS (can't believe I said that) and require the
minimum number of letters to distinguish words (usually 3 or 4).

Given that, I can type a 2-word command in about 1 second.
No way could I move a mouse around that fast.

Phil goetz@cs.buffalo.edu
