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From: mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz - CATS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Arp 1.3, ASH and popcli
Message-ID: <9669@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 14 Feb 90 13:23:18 GMT
References: <:> <1485@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk> <DEVEN.90Feb8040311@netserv2.rpi.edu> <2503@leah.Albany.Edu>
Reply-To: mks@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (Michael Sinz - CATS)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <2503@leah.Albany.Edu> wfh58@leah.Albany.Edu (William F. Hammond) writes:
>It seems that if you want a shell popper, most of the time you also get
>a screen blanker, and possibly more.
>
>It's certainly not the "Unix philosophy" that every program should do just
>one thing, do it very well, and cooperate with every other program.

Oh, and EMACS is?  Let me see, it is an OK editor that can play towers of
hanoi, ELIZA, read news, insert cookies, ....  All for just 1673428 bytes
of executable code!  I say that is a program that does one thing and does
it well.  (Use up all system resources...)  :-)

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