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From: piet@ruuinf.UUCP (Piet van Oostrum)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Universal OS (striving for flexibility)
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Date: 29 Apr 88 16:34:39 GMT
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In article <1556@vaxb.calgary.UUCP> radford@calgary.UUCP (Radford Neal) writes:

   A universal operating system will be designed when someone very clever,
   imaginative, and artistic creates a reasonably simple model of computer 
   use that encorportates the needs of all users and is economically
   implementable in the technology of the day. If this should ever occur,
   the universal model will be much more likely to encorporate _none_ of
   the ideas of past "programming geniuses" than to encorporate them all.

How about a Turing Machine?

-- 
Piet van Oostrum, Dept of Computer Science, University of Utrecht
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