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From: schanck@saturn.cis.ohio-state.edu (Christopher Schanck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Op Environment vs Op System (was: NeXT not revolutionary enough?)
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Date: 2 Nov 88 18:54:11 GMT
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The discussion of UNIX as a good/bad arena for a windowing/graphical based
operating system put me in mind of a point made in a recent BYTE article:
people have a tendency to confuse the *environment* with the operating
system. Sure, the tradition UNIX envronments are command-line driven
ones. But as has been stated, nothing precludes UNIX from using anything
else, like windowing, icons, graphical display of sanscrit, etc. Whoever
made the point that the kernel doesn't have the environment coded into it
was right; this is a Good Thing.

Chris

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