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From: dennisc@tigger.Colorado.EDU (Dennis Colarelli)
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Subject: Re: UNIX vs. the world (again) (was: Compilation listing from Sun ...)
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Date: 20 Jun 91 10:46:42 GMT
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In article <25855@lanl.gov> jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
>
>*"The Psychology of Everyday Things"; Norman, Donald A.; Basic Books;
>1988.  I recommend it.  Of course, nearly everything in UNIX violates
>the principles espoused by this book.
>

From the chapter "Cognitive Engineering", in "User Centered System Design,
New Perspectives on Human-Computer Interaction", Norman writes about UNIX:

	The underlying philosophy is to provide a number of small, carefully
	crafted operations that can be combined in a flexible manner under
	the control of of the user to do the task at hand.  It is something
	like a construction set of computational procedures. 
	...the interface has good ideas...
	Elsewhere I have scolded it for its shortcomings, but we should not
	overlook its strengths.

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Dennis Colarelli