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Marius Amado Alves <maa@liacc.up.pt> writes:

> > Most importantly, users shouldn't even have to know about applications.
> > In general, they should be manipulating data and the OS should offer
> > tools to do so
> 
> That would be IEE (Integrated Everything Environment), to be out in 2023.

Or the OS/2 Workplace Shell, out in 1994.

OS/2 was a great, truly object-oriented environment.  Too bad it
wasn't free software.  IBM dropped it and now it's dead.

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Ludovic Brenta.