Re: [TUHS] If not Linux, then what?

On 28 Aug 2019 11:36 +0200, from angus(a)fairhaven.za.net (Angus Robinson): I think that if there is a need to be filled, then something will fill that need. In our timeline, in plenty of cases that need ended up being filled by Linux -- quite possibly not in least part because it's there, it's cheap, it's reasonably well-supported, and it can be modified and extended by end users relatively easily. However, absent Linux, as long as the task still needed to be done, _something else_ would have filled the need at some point. Plenty of people got interested in the technology/information technology sector well before Linux. Maybe Linux offered a venue for some of those people to _express_ their interest, but I have a hard time seeing why Linux would be a prerequisite. On another note, and to get back to the original question, I'm a little surprised that nobody here seems to have mentioned something like an outgrowth of Minix. -- Michael Kjörling • https://michael.kjorling.se • michael(a)kjorling.se “The most dangerous thought that you can have as a creative person is to think you know what you’re doing.” (Bret Victor)