[TUHS] UNIX of choice these days?

[Charles Anthony]

On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 4:50 PM, Steve Nickolas <usotsuki at buric.co> wrote:

> On Mon, 25 Sep 2017, Dave Horsfall wrote:
>
> On Sun, 24 Sep 2017, Bakul Shah wrote:
>>
>> There are just a few potential users of /proc and they were already using
>>> other facilities. plus /proc is an optional facility. All this conspired to
>>> make /proc less useful in FreeBSD. Unused code is in danger of being
>>> garbage collected in FreeBSD :-)
>>>
>>
>> Whatever happened to the Unix philosophy of everything looking like a
>> file? Adding more system calls is the Windoze (or perhaps Penguin) way of
>> doing things.
>>
>>
>>
> I once thought of trying to develop an OS where not only was everything a
> file, but programs were in effect functions that could be chained together.
>
> Then decided it was too radical.
>

You were reinventing Multics.

-- Charles
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