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From: mmorse@NSF.GOV (Michael Morse)
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Subject: Re: Silly MH questions
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Date: 13 Nov 90 18:48:49 GMT
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> Whatever
> happened to the Unix philosphy??

It got lost.  It should have been clear from the start that it had
limited usefulness, in that only a small subset of the general
population had the conceptual and technical expertise to appreciate it
and use it.  Now that *everybody* (from my 5-year-old daughter to my
72-year-old mother) can not only use a computer, but probably owns
one, a philosophy with wider applicability was required.  Just as
troff gave way to WordPerfect, mh will give way to GUI-based mail
systems, despite the fact that the replacements offer less features,
less power, less configurability, less "elegance".  The difference is
that they can be used by normal people.  Sigh.

--Mike