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- From: ph@netcom.com (Peter Hendrickson)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp.mcl
- Subject: MCL Operating System
- Message-ID: <9301212133.AA22767@netcom.netcom.com>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 21:33:38 GMT
- References: Henry Lieberman's message of Thu, 21 Jan 93 12:30:33 -0500 <9301211730.AA09884@media.mit.edu>
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- >Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 12:30:33 -0500
- >From: Henry Lieberman <lieber@media.mit.edu>
- >
- >Actually, an even better idea is to call the MCL application an "init"
- >and tell people that you have to put it in the Extensions folder
- >inside the System Folder [no harm in that being there, is there?].
- >It's only about twice as big as the Quicktime init, and does lots more.
- >Then call each fasl file an "application", and marvel at how small the
- >applications are.
-
- This is the way to go. Selling people on another init is easy. Plus,
- it avoids the question of why one needs two operating systems, one of
- which depends on the other.
-
- Peter Hendrickson
- ph@netcom.com
-