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From: mac3n@babbage.acc.virginia.edu (Alex Colvin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: lisp operating systems
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Date: 6 Dec 88 14:11:34 GMT
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Lisp operating systems have this in common with Smalltalk operating systems.

  "The operating system does those things that can't be done by the
   programmer.  There shouldn't be one."

	-- A. Kay, I think.

What you see instead is a bunch of packages with hooks (sounds painful!).