Re: Dream OS

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From: S. Johnson
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 1995 03:21

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beverins@aol.com (B E Verins) wrote:
>
>>>If the computer is going to do all the hand-holding necessary for the
>computerphobe then it's going to have all kinds of doohickies hanging
>about which get in the way of the agressive user.<<
>
>The dream OS would allow you to shut off the "hanging around doohickies",
>should you want to. The Amiga lets you do away with Workbench altogether
>for you CLI freaks.
>
And Copland too will have a "scalable" interface, i.e. you can get rid of all the "doohickies" that are for newbies.  BTW, having worked extensively with CLI in DOS, and various Unix flavors I still fail to see why it is considered "more powerful" then a GUI.  I know this will start a flame war but I have to say it.  There's nothing, absolutely nothing that you can do in a CLI that you can't do in a GUI, theoretically speaking, of course.  As to why some people favor CLI's I guess its pure inertia (BTW I started out using CLI's for years before
moving to a GUI so I'm not sure the same argument applies).

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Subject: Re: Dream OS
Date: 3 Aug 1995 03:21:59 GMT
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