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Aucbvax.2148 fa.works utzoo!duke!decvax!ucbvax!works 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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