Specially because it keeps being forgotten that Lisp Machines and Interlisp-D workstations shells were basically a graphical based REPL.
To put it in 2021 terms, Jupiter Netbooks in 1980's instead of PDP-11 green phosphor terminals.
To put it in 2021 terms, Jupiter Netbooks in 1980's instead of PDP-11 green phosphor terminals.
However my university library had a very good section on all kinds of OSes and programming languages since the dawn of computing, thus I could see how the future might have been and there was definitely a much better path, specially when coupled with my own experience across Amiga, Windows and Mac OS.
It is like the bulb paradox, just applied to OSes.