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From: ram-ashwin@YALE.ARPA (Ashwin Ram)
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Subject: Re: Aegis Vs. Unix
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Date: Tue, 9-Jun-87 12:30:41 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun  9 12:30:41 1987
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A point I'd like to clarify about my message -- I wasn't making a Unix vs.
Aegis argument, but a DM vs. Emacs one.  I was only claiming that it would be
real nice if the DM editor *was* Emacs, suitably enhanced to take advantage
of the Apollo workstation.

As far as Unix vs. Aegis goes, there are some features of Unix that I like
(and use), but if I were forced to use one or the other exclusively, I'd go
for Aegis.  I think it would be a pity if Apollo abandoned Aegis completely.
The current setup -- primarily Aegis, but allowing me to use some Unix stuff
where it's better or more familiar -- suits me (as a user, not a system
programmer) just fine.  Of course, it would be nice if some of the Unix stuff
that people liked could be integrated into Aegis (like TEST(1) vs. EXISTF,
APROPOS, upper/lower-case filenames, etc., at the user level, or like
cleaning up PGM_$ARGs at the system programmer level).

-- Ashwin.