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We seem to collectively forget a lot of things with the Mac experience. You know how many troubleshooting required to zap the pram? Option-cmd-p-r on startup. W
by jeromegv 6y ago
We seem to collectively forget a lot of things with the Mac experience. You know how many troubleshooting required to zap the pram? Option-cmd-p-r on startup. Was that good Ux that people could guess on their own?
- userbinator 6y agoWith Apple, all you get is either an Apple logo, or some obscure symbol when something does go wrong. It's a huge difference from PC BIOS that is far more informative and instructive. It reminds me of the Douglas Adams quote: "The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair."
- floatboth 6y agoIn the "zap pram" days, you could get an Open Firmware prompt :)
- cbsmith 6y agoI'm familiar with Option-cmd-p-r as well as other enumerable startup sequences. That was kind of the joke with Apple. Good UX principles were very much a "do as I say, not as I do" kind of thing. ;-)