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Article #7169Re: Porting UNIX Applications to the Mac
From: Matt Dillon
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1986 05:21
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1986 05:21
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UNIX implies all sorts of stream commands and their combination via pipes. This implies some sort of shell, unless you can think of a way to create such constructions from a window enviroment. It may seem simply enough to state 'everything can be made user friendly', but it isn't practical for EVERYTHING, especially UNIX related things. The reason VI and EMACS are so popular is simply because they can do anything you want them to do. You can fit only so much in a menu-based system (and going to many levels of sub-menu's means the user can no longer do operations 'with a flick of his mouse button'). UNIX was originally and still is a programmer's development enviroment. -Matt
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!nike!ucbcad!ucbvax!CORY.BERKELEY.EDU!dillon From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: Porting UNIX Applications to the Mac Message-ID: <8609170521.AA18527@cory.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Wed, 17-Sep-86 01:21:17 EDT Article-I.D.: cory.8609170521.AA18527 Posted: Wed Sep 17 01:21:17 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Sep-86 06:28:09 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 14