[101070] in RedHat Linux List
Re: How will Netscape/AOL Merger Affect Us?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bsc@klondike.ml.org)
Tue Nov 24 14:12:54 1998
From: bsc@klondike.ml.org
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 11:10:26 -0800
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In-Reply-To: <XFMail.981124104425.lsumpter@bchgate.bchydro.bc.ca>; from Lloyd Sumpter on Tue, Nov 24, 1998 at 10:44:25AM -0800
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> How about a novel idea: A web browser that browses the web. A mail-reader to
> read the mail. A news-reader to read the news. Not one giant program that tries
> to do everything - that thinking comes from the run-one-program-at-a-time
> DOS/WIndows world.
This is truly an revolutionary idea! <laughing>
One of the things I love about Unix is the fact that you have a bunch of
small utilities that combine, in ways I'm sure the authors never expected,
to create tools of incredible power (as an example, think of the ways
you've combined ps, awk, grep, perl and find in the last two weeks -- could
you have done this many unique things if you'd been given one large tool
no matter how richly that tool did it's job?).
Regards,
Blair Craft.
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Blair Craft
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