Trygve Reenskaug wrote
> Alan Kay once said something like "an operating system is what the 
> language designers omitted to include in their language".

That's a great one! Dan Ingalls put it this way in Design Principles Behind
Smalltalk (http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/smalltalk.html):
    Operating System: An operating system is a collection of things that
don't fit into a language. There shouldn't be one.



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