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Unix at least picked one abstraction and stuck with it, contrast windows which is a dizzying mess of incompatible ideas. It’s so bad that more paranoid people m
by swiley 7y ago
Unix at least picked one abstraction and stuck with it, contrast windows which is a dizzying mess of incompatible ideas. It’s so bad that more paranoid people may think Microsoft disorients people on purpose.
There are other operating systems that also chose singular abstractions like the cannon cat and smalltalk.
- teddyh 7y agoReference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_Cat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_Cat