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From: drd@siia.mv.com (David Dick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Where does UNIX fit in a graphically-based computer world?
Message-ID: <1990Sep13.183229.23695@siia.mv.com>
Date: 13 Sep 90 18:32:29 GMT
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In <14894@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> dave@PRC.Unisys.COM (David Lee Matuszek) writes:

[long discussion of Mac, UNIX, and virtues thereof omitted]

>X, like UNIX, subscribes to the belief that flexibility is more
>important than simplicity.  It's intended to run on any UNIX machine,
>anywhere.  

IMHO, UNIX originally (say Edition 7) had both flexibility and simplicity.
It is only when diverse groups, who didn't really understand the
basics of the UNIX philosophy, started added things that flexibility
began to be added at the expense of simplicity.

David Dick
Software Innovations, Inc. [the Software Moving Company (sm)]