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From: FODEMESI Gergely <fgergo@eik.bme.hu>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Put (was: [9fans] acme: some thoughts about design)
Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 01:10:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.58L0.0405300051550.21346@goliat> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d9e7bab009b153c675bc3dfd7ff54f48@9netics.com>


On Sat, 29 May 2004 9nut@9netics.com wrote:

> > Don't use files ;-) It is a computer task to save my input but
> > I dont understand why I must tell the computer where to store.

Even in 1997 I met people who thought, that a user should not be obliged
to know when, where and what to save or that the concept of saving should
exist at all. (A real visionary might have thought about this probably
decades ago.)

> Obviously a failure of vision on Rob's part!

Put might have come from an idea like above (ie. "save" is not the best
way to express the real need), or it was just shorter than "Save".

 gergo


      reply	other threads:[~2004-05-29 23:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-28  9:01 [9fans] acme: some thoughts about design cej
2004-05-29  9:28 ` Matthias Teege
2004-05-29 14:48   ` Russ Cox
2004-05-29 16:18     ` Matthias Teege
2004-05-29 18:31       ` 9nut
2004-05-29 23:10         ` FODEMESI Gergely [this message]

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