Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: How does man know? Message-ID: <11209@smoke.BRL.MIL> Date: 2 Oct 89 18:33:34 GMT References: <319@massey.ac.nz> <11170@smoke.BRL.MIL> <592@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <11182@smoke.BRL.MIL> <2674@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> <11194@smoke.BRL.MIL> <2772@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 14 In article <2772@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) writes: >Sure, everyone should have a workstation on their desk. >But that's not the real world. If Unix is going to be successful, >it has to support the commercial market. (a) I didn't suggest that one has to have a fancy workstation before pagination can be done right. However, if one does have one, then pagination done wrong definitely gets in the way. (b) I have never thought that the UNIX Bourne shell environment is one that should be pushed commercially as a naive-user interface. But it should be available for what are now known as "power users", and for them it is important to design on the toolkit (orthogonal, modular function) principle.