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> Computer science would have progressed much further and faster if all of the time and effort that has been spent maintaining and nurturing Unix had been spent
by armitron 10mo ago
> Computer science would have progressed much further and faster if all of the time and effort that has been spent maintaining and nurturing Unix had been spent on a sounder operating system. We hope that one day Unix will be relingquished to the history books and museums of computer science as an interesting, albeit costly, footnote.
UHH is obviously sound but doesn't go far enough in criticizing the unix disaster.
- ErroneousBosh 10mo agoThe problem with Unix is that everything else is much much worse. Lots of people have come up with fun little toy OSes, but nothing you could actually use.
- tiberious726 10mo agoGenera would like to have a word
- pjmlp 10mo agoIts main selling point against the 1970's competition was being available for symbolic price, alongside a commented book printout (Lion's). Had it played by the same price rules, with a commercial license, outcome would have been much different.