[TUHS] How Unix brings people together, or it's a small

[Clem Cole]

And I think it has been peed on by many different people trying to leave
their own mark on it along the way.

On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 11:06 PM, Marc Rochkind <rochkind at basepath.com>
wrote:

> Of course. Linux is:
>
> 1. old,
> 2. designed by a huge group,
> 3. intended to serve many purposes
>
> UNIX was, at least in its early days, the opposite in all three ways. But,
> after 15 years or so, it also was numbers 1 - 3. (Speaking of System V
> here.)
>
> There have been OSes that remained beautifully sleek and uncluttered
> forever. Such as BeOS. However, all such systems failed to achieve critical
> mass. Which is why they remained true.
>
> No way out of this trap.
>
> --Marc
>
> On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 8:03 PM, Doug McIlroy <doug at cs.dartmouth.edu>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> >  Lots of commands are now little shells
>> ...
>> > Linux today is much more like the systems
>> > Unix displaced than it is like Unix
>>
>> So depressingly true!
>>
>> Doug
>>
>
>
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