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Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 09:14:11 +0100
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Once upon a time (on 28 Apr 97 at 21:16) Alaric B. Williams said:

> > Meaning with all the modern OS's features implemented.
> 
> I won't go into the modern stuff Linux doesn't implement then :-)
Better don't... at list on the mailing list ;-)

> > Just a matter of *hiding* this "hackerness" from the mere user - a well
> > designed, flexible and friendly configuration utility does everything, am
> > I right?
> 
> Hmmm. The kind of things I have in mind is making hackerness problem-domain,
> ie the kind of concept a user can relate to, rather than being
> implementation-driven and thus hardware-oriented! It is already "too late"
> to do this for DOS, but there are still lessons to be learnt.
True. And facing that, we have to try to hide the hackerness from ones who 
don't want to see it and reveal it to those who want. Just a matter of wise 
design.
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