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To: Don Green who wrote (2646)	4/3/1999 11:21:00 PM
From: Jibacoa	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3014

Was that an article or a book? Have a good day.

To: Don Green who wrote (2646)	4/4/1999 2:18:00 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 3014

Don, very entertaining article. I think the car analogy got it right. The last paragraph sums up well. What would the engineer say, after you had explained your problem, and enumerated all of the dissatisfactions in your life? He would probably tell you that life is a very hard and complicated thing; that no interface can change that; that anyone who believes otherwise is a sucker; and that if you don't like having choices made for you, you should start making your own. But I see Linux over time having better layers that hide the complexity with little/no sacrafice in performance. This the techo-epoxy-graphite that makes the tank appear as a corvette. If this is positive, no effect or negative on applix is a more complex issue. My gut sayes somewhat positive to positive. Tom Watson tosiwmee

To: Don Green who wrote (2646)	4/7/1999 5:20:00 PM
From: Greg Jung	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3014

Don, a very long read... some good sections. However the author is too much of a "writer" instead of a techie to get it right. He never mentioned the Amiga from Commodore, which since 1986 had it all - Multitask, integrated gui and CLI. Also possible to run the Mac OS in an amiga process. Given the reverence for this system by the BeOS creators I'm surprised he left it out. Also the Atari, although that is a cooperative multitasker and may not have much of a CLI. Greg