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From: Preben Randhol <randhol+news@pvv.org>
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Subject: Re: Advantage of XML based GUI? (was Re: Ada-inspired OS/Language)
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 15:32:05 +0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 13 Sep 2002 12:23:59 +0000 (UTC), Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> There is not really a Unix root user, though there are privileges.
> (There are file servers, compute servers, and workstations,
> not necessarily tied to machines.)
> User rights are elaborate, distributed, sometimes surprinsingly absent,
> if you want this, the file system (which is central to everything)
> has namespaces such that you can import "parts" of some "file area"
> into some other "file area"...
> 
> Please don't rely on this description, I wish I had more time
> to learn more about this system. It feels really different.
> Productive. Simple. Good.

Hmm sounds interesting.

> Microsoft Windows--a fresh perspective on information hiding

Unless you get a virus that is only so happy to share your information
with the rest of the net.

Preben