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- From: papresco@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Paul Prescod)
- Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD
- Message-ID: <By5vKH.EwM@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
- Organization: University of Waterloo
- References: <98246@netnews.upenn.edu> <1992Nov22.143517.924@global.hacktic.nl>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 08:57:52 GMT
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- >A system that does everything for everyone is suffering from what is called
- >creaping featurism. Most systems which suffer from that (many popular DOS apps
- >like e.g. WP, PC-TOOLS, etc.) are big, slow and hard to use. Another problem
- >is that different users have different needs. So called end-users run
- >applications and (often) don't need a powerful shell with pipelines, I/O
- >redirection, and cryptic commands.
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- Word for windows can do anything that WordPerfect, VI or Emacs can do,
- and yet the interface is crystal clear and easy.
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