Aucbvax.2148
fa.works
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Tue Jul  7 09:20:54 1981
Re: Spatial design for a workstation
>From COMSAT.SoftArts@MIT-Multics Tue Jul  7 09:15:48 1981
A minor point.

    Rather than being dropped at operating system, she is
    dropped into the office automation program (or shell).

One isn't dropped into an operating system, one is dropped into
a command processor.  An operating system is a program which
allocates memory, manages files, does I/O and so on.  The
command processor is the usual user interface to it but is by
no means the only one.  ITS puts you into a debugger; the Xerox
Star puts you into a desk top graphical top level.



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