What kinds of things would you want in the GNU OS?

Peter da Silva peter at ficc.uu.net
Sat Jun 3 22:37:58 AEST 1989


In article <32171 at bu-cs.BU.EDU>, bzs at bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein) writes:
> 	- "some feature from ``my'' favorite operating system for no
> 	  obvious reason other than ``I'' am accustomed to it".

> like case insensitive file options...

Sorry. My favorite operating system is UNIX. And I still think case-
insensitive file names are handy.

However they'll never work for UNIX. Why? They'll never fly in Japan.
Same with any sort of fancy new command option scheme.
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