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DAmmit. I wish you would stop stripping. IIRC, we were talking about ...can't remember. I wanted you to notice the MONGEN dialog and all the questions that had to be answered and the formats of the answers. But I no longer have any idea why that would help you understand.

I don't know what you mean by this.

No. Part of our shortcut procedures is to copy *.RELs together. Another shortcut was to install an EDDT patch. In certain cases, all kinds of different things can be tweaked. People who have never used DDT or EDDT in their lifetime have absolutely no idea what a debugger should be able to do. I'm talking to you people who claim you program in "a".

Nope. For your thinking style, Multics would be a good one.

An operating system that was senile at birth is not my choice of a good example. The only feedback received was based on mere usage and no coding.

I'm talking about OSes that were used at every level. None of the above had broad range of code inspector and-or modifiers. Only corporations with money could that. None had license to modify and distribute and learn from various sub-sub-customer feedback.

You are 100% right here.

This is where you get it wrong. For an OS to evolve well, it needs the whole range of users. The least "sophisticated" gave us our best ideas because these users were not computing service delivery experts but computing user experts.

A well developed OS also needs tons of kiddies playing with its innermost intimate parts. How else do those kids learn? We tried to hire the best of them.

BAH