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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
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Subject: Re: Porting UNIX Applications to the Mac
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Date: Wed, 17-Sep-86 01:21:17 EDT
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	UNIX implies all sorts of stream commands and their combination
via pipes.  This implies some sort of shell, unless you can think of a way
to create such constructions from a window enviroment.  It may seem
simply enough to state 'everything can be made user friendly', but it isn't
practical for EVERYTHING, especially UNIX related things.

	The reason VI and EMACS are so popular is simply because they can do
anything you want them to do.  You can fit only so much in a menu-based
system (and going to many levels of sub-menu's means the user can no longer
do operations 'with a flick of his mouse button').  UNIX was originally and
still is a programmer's development enviroment.

					-Matt