On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 7:18 PM Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:

I think that is true. But from my point of view "linux winning" was not necessarily "linux was better at the time." I think it was a lot of factors.

When I got to Los Alamos in 1999, it was still a tossup between the BSDs and Linux as to "which is better." Nevertheless, for lots of reasons, in 1998 (the same year I found Linux to be less reliable over time) Los Alamos had cast its lot with Linux, for all kinds of reasons.