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Subject:Re: Shut Windows down ver From:Marilynne Smith <m -dot- smith182 -at- GENIE -dot- GEIS -dot- COM> Date:Sun, 26 Jun 1994 09:20:00 UTC
When I look at my own personal associations and thoughts about "shut down"
it would seem to me that I associate "shut down" with shutting off the
hardware. Does anyone else "shut down" an application? It implies to me
much more than Exiting Windows to do something else, as I did tonight to
collect my mail on GEnie.
When I "shut down" my computer, I turn it off. I don't think of shutting
down Windows, or GEnie, or my word processor, or my games. Hope this helps.
