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From: gwyn@smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Plan 9? (+ others)
Message-ID: <8376@smoke.ARPA>
Date: 25 Aug 88 16:29:39 GMT
References: <846@yunexus.UUCP> <282@umbio.MIAMI.EDU> <848@yunexus.UUCP> <10533@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> <583@unisv.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <583@unisv.UUCP> vanpelt@unisv.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt) writes:
-In article <10533@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> smb@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Steven Bellovin) writes:
->``Plan 9'' ... is research ...  The developers started from
->several basic assumptions: ... that an intelligent user interface
->(complete with dot-mapped display and mouse) is a Right Decision;
-I certainly hope (well, actually, from what I know about the people
-involved, I'm reasonably confident) that if they must design a
-system that is "user (*bletch*) friendly", they make it one which
-does not cripple the person who (a) knows what they're doing and
-(b) is not stricken with nameless dread at the sight of a "%" prompt.

Steve did not say "user friendly", meaning mindless-user friendly,
as in the typical Macintosh interface.  Have you used the Blit-style
interface?  It beats the hell out of ordinary dumb CRTs.