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From: mike@erix.UUCP (Mike Williams)
Newsgroups: net.internat
Subject: Re: What do we REALLY want?
Message-ID: <960@erix.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 11-Oct-85 07:23:11 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 11 07:23:11 1985
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In article <723@inset.UUCP> jr@inset.UUCP (Jim R Oldroyd) writes:
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>I first asked the question: "What do we REALLY want?".  Ignore
>issues of implementation for a moment - consider the situation
>we find ourselves faced with.
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It all depend on for what we want to use UNIX. I use UNIX as a collection of
programming tools. However if I wanted to use UNIX for word processing, I
might buy a good word processing package. If that's all I wanted to do, I
could write a special shell for word processing. I think that these programs
themselves could deal with national character sets without disturbing standard
UNIX.

But really, I wouldn't do it that way at all. I would buy a Mac. Word
processor users don't want UNIX type interfaces. Mice and icons and such
like are so much better. Of course I could build these on top of UNIX, but
why bother when I can buy other systems like SmallTalk with all these things
anyway?

I suppose that all this rambling is just asking "Is there any point in an
international UNIX?". 

Mike Williams.

...mcvax!enea!erix!mike

[PS all these opinions are of course my own and do not represent those of my
employer, my wife, my child or my cat.]