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From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Subject: Re: Retro-Computing!
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|   Modern Operating Systems attempt to adapt to the human's needs.  Old
|   Operating Systems require the human to adapt to them.

"Modern Operating Systems" require different people to adapt to them than
"Old Operating Systems" did, and in different ways.  what's constant is
that the human has to adapt to the computer, unless the human is willing
and able to program it, which the old systems' people were, and the modern
systems' people aren't.  so people adapt to the computer more today than
they used to do, only they are told the opposite through clever marketing.

#<Erik>
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