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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: For the AdaOS folks
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 14:12:00 +0100
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* Georg Bauhaus:

> Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
> : * Wes Groleau:
> : 
> :> or anyone else with similar ambitions.
> :>
> :> Read "Kill the operating System"
> :> page 32 of September 2003 Technology Review
> :>
> :> Not a prescription, but something to think about.
>
> If you would like to also try it, install Plan 9 :-)
> The system does what the author describes in column 2 (among other
> things.)

UNIX itself comes pretty close.  It's just not as graphical as
Hollywood likes it, and far less modal.  If he used a less
professional drawing program instead of Adobe Illustrator, the
embedding he describes already worked in 1995 (maybe even a few years
earlier if you were ready to use truly experimental software).

Of course, Garfinkel knows this, and I believe this article is just a
troll.