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From: firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth)
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Subject: Re: PDP-10 user I/O
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Date: 30 May 88 16:15:59 GMT
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In article <46500018@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>... I find it frustrating to find many otherwise
>lovely computers rendered useless to me by an operating system which
>prevents me from writing programs the way I like...

So throw away the operating system.  The purpose of an OS is to
add value.  When it subtracts value - when the things it stops you
doing are more important that the things it provides for you - then
it is time to throw it away.