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Because TeX was largely the effort of a single individual, less attention has been paid to its user interface, or "friendliness," than a casual user might like. In fact, most users of TeX use it on the UNIX operating system, a command line-oriented user environment you may already be familiar with from using the workstations in the basement of Science Center...
Even Richard Stallman cannot abide by this high standard. To do anything more than beep when it is turned on, a computer needs an operating system. PCs require DOS, Macs use System 7, and workstations and mainframes use UNIX...
...even Stallman must use a commercial operating system because no "free" one exists. To change this, he is writing an improved version of UNIX from scratch--which he intends to give away...
...applied for a UNIX account the first day I arrived at Harvard. Luckily, my account was ready the next day, and I waltzed on over to the Science Center, happy as a virus on a 200 megabyte hard drive. (Computer humor. You're supposed to laugh...
Users were unable to work on the UNIX and VMS machines, known as HUSC temperature sensors abruptly shut down the machines be cause of using computer temperatures...