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From: brucec@tekecs.UUCP (Bruce Cohen)
Newsgroups: net.cog-eng
Subject: "user-friendly" considered exciting
Message-ID: <2165@tekecs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 23-Sep-83 14:56:01 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 23 14:56:01 1983
Date-Received: Sun, 25-Sep-83 14:00:13 EDT
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Here's a suggestion made by a friend of mine who can't submit articles
to net.cog-eng.

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Replied: <<21-Sep-83 09:02>>
From: tekecs!tektronix!ogcvax!omsvax!mjm
To: ogcvax!tektronix!tekecs!brucec
Received: from ogcvax.uucp by tektronix ; 20 Sep 83 18:26:11 PDT
Subject: User Friendly Software
Date: Tue Sep 20 17:48:01 1983

Gee, I like the concept of "user-friendly" software
so much that I've considered going one step further
and developing a family of "user-affectionate" software.
For example, at the end of a long compile the user sees 
the message:

"Was it good for you, too?" 


(Well, the all night hackers would probably like the idea....)


                                  Marjie Myers




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I think that an environment variable called $RELATIONSHIP should be
used to determine the amount of affection in the system messages.  One
doesn't want one's computer becoming too familiar early in the
relationship, for fear it would think one cheap.

				Bruce Cohen
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