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> > > But I also think that designing and bragging about a crappy system is > > > pretty asinine, but it's what both OS X and linux do. > > As opposed to what? > Designing and bragging about an elegant system. Has anyone ever done that and lived to tell the tale? BeOS certainly doesn't count... it was born with the cancer of C++ in its heart. Mac OS had no OS in it at all, until OS X came along. And if I ever see a numeric error code from a "user friendly" so-called OS again I'll puke. Smalltalk had probably the worst GUI for actual work, ever, NOT excluding Athena Widgets, Symbolics, and Plan 9. QNX has an inferiority complex that makes Porky Pig look macho. Plan 9 had the second or third worst GUI, and was far too religiously a distributed system. > I'm not trying to say there's something better, just that the current > state sucks and it could and should have been better. Of course it does, and of course it could have been, but I don't believe it would have been in any credible timeline.There's stuff above here
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