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In article <40p3tc$a79@student.anu.edu.au>,
   Jason Stokes <J.STOKES@student.anu.edu.au> wrote:
>cs94367@cs.ualberta.ca (Jon Martin) wrote:
>

>UNIX, and I assume its counterpart LINUX, just totally fails to hide OS 
details from the 
>user.  It seems I have to learn a whole new language (can anyone explain 
EMACSese

Emacs is not Unix.  It's a program.  Runs on Unix.  Runs on DOS.  Runs in 
Windoze.  Doesn't even come with standard UNIX.

 for 
>example?) just to operate it.  What it needs is a really good OOUI/GUI that 
gives 
>drag'n'drop functionality.  I've seen its windowing system, X-windows, and I 
                                  ^^^^  
>don't think much of it.

Seen?  But have you *used* it.  Have you used OpenLook?  Have you used Motif? 
 Have you used OpenStep?  Have you used CDE?  Can you think of another OS that 
gives you this much choice?

>Using a computer is going to be as basic a skill as literacy, if it isn't 
already, and 
>that means people aren't going to be able to cope if they have to conform to 
some 
>computer scientist's idea of a handy mnemonic command.  GREP?

Touche, grep is a poorly-named program.  But what about it's sheer power.  I 
pity the people who have to pay extra for HUGE applications for 
Mac/DOS/Windows(95) to do the same basic things that grep does.

.. and piping.  Real piping, not the lame,cheezy, 
oh-let-me-make-a-temp-file-first pipe command that comes with DOS (which by 
the way, doesn't work half the time)

>My ideal OS would assume very little knowledge for the user get started (so 
kids can use

Hmmm, see my Newton post.
 
>it) but would allow progressively more detailed and lower level manipulation 
for the         
>technically minded.  It would also have sound technical foundations 
incorporating all the 
>latest OS technology, with a large capacity for expansion.  The closest thing 
to this 
>ideal is, of course,  
>
>OS/2

OS/2 is a nice OS.  Make it more stable, multi-user, high security, and more 
Unix-like utilities and it would be a dream OS.


truly,
Slod Ion