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From: ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: What constitutes a good OS?
Message-ID: <38100@cup.portal.com>
Date: 16 Jan 91 09:08:13 GMT
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< One of the important goals of an OS should be to minimize the
< programmers time and the code size. Programming is expensive to
< everyone involved: it is programming time, not CPU cycles that's
< really important. Computers are cheep; programmers are not. It is

Programmers are cheap compared to end-users.  The operating system
needs to minimize end-user time.

					Tim Smith