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armitron | 3 months 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.

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ErroneousBosh|3 months ago

The 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.

pjmlp|3 months ago

Its 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.

tiberious726|3 months ago

Genera would like to have a word