Interface of the 1994 Windows Edition of afternoon
The 8th edition of the work is a version of the novel for computers running Windows 3.1. The difference between the Macintosh and Windows Editions cannot be overstated. Looking at this image readers can see the text of the novel framed by the requisite gray Windows menu at the top of the screen and navigation bar at the bottom, a look that makes the work look less like a novel than yet another document of a Word program. Both Joyce and Bernstein preferred working on the Macintosh platform. It is no surprise why.