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From: peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: net.internat
Subject: Re: What do we REALLY want?
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Date: Wed, 16-Oct-85 09:52:50 EDT
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> 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?

Because you can't get SmallTalk (if you ever considered UNIX to be a resource
hog, have a look at SmallTalk some time), and the Mac user interface is
running on a horrid CP/M-like operating system. UNIX is an excellent base
to build all sorts of special-purpose systems: it's small & fast, expert
friendly (remember, someone has to write the user friendly interface), and
widely available.