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Date:      Thu, 01 Nov 2001 16:40:43 -0700
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org>
Cc:        Paul Robinson <paul@akita.co.uk>, "Andrew C. Hornback" <achornback@worldnet.att.net>, <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>, <advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: NatWest? no thanks
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In-Reply-To: <20011101214159.C27349-100000@howie.ncptiddische.net>
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At 01:54 PM 11/1/2001, Nils Holland wrote:

>I love it when people try to minimize my bandwidth costs by sending short
>and precise answers...

Sorry, but you asked a "yes or no" question. That left two possible
answers. ;-)

>Seriously: How do you imagine it? Throw out the shell and make a GUI only
>thing? 

Why? Even Apple, king of GUIs for naive users, didn't do that.

>Will the masses out there ever use an OS where you have to type
>something like "find / \! -newer report.tex"? 

Where you HAVE to type it? No. Where you CAN type it? Sure.

--Brett


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