Newsgroups: comp.arch
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Macintosh OS (was: 68000 and Wo
Message-ID: <1990May28.162354.21957@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <402@newave.UUCP> <3300131@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: Mon, 28 May 90 16:23:54 GMT

In article <3300131@m.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>beautiful paper by Butler Lampson, I believe, called "An open
>Operating System for a Single-User Machine" (circa 82-84).  Basically,
>Lampson observes that the advent of the personal computer allows us to
>return to the golden days of the 1950's...

One might note that said paper is nearly a decade old, and the more recent
systems produced by Lampson and his colleagues are working hard on getting
back out of the 50s.  That approach had problems as well as virtues.
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