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Article #179Re: Multitasking at el...
From: sewilco
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1987 06:30
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1987 06:30
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[stuff about MMUs, whether personal computers/workstations need MMUs]
In response to a repetition of the claim about odd UNIX command names,
I started to give alternative meanings to all the poster's MS-DOS
examples (ie, "type" shows file type or language). Instead I'll just
point out that any terse command language requires training.
Icons and menus (a form of fill-in-the-blank) reduce the training. But
if a text command language is needed, it must be more verbose to reduce
ambiguity. Even natural English is too ambiguous. Let's not bring
COBOL into this. :-)
Interface discussions belong in another newsgroup anyway.
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