[TUHS] Clever code (was Re: Re: Stdin Redirect in Cu History/Alternatives?

[Larry McVoy]

On Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 10:26:37PM -0700, Andrew Warkentin wrote:
> On 12/11/22, Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
> >
> > If you think of microkernels and think Mach is it, nope, look at QNX.
> >
> And yet, for some reason, QNX has had almost no influence on anything
> else besides a few hobby OSes (only one of which ever reached a
> reasonably mature state) as far as I can tell. I really don't get why
> that is. As far as I know, I'm the only one who's working on a
> QNX-like OS that's not QNX itself.

It influenced me.

Lots of things that were the right answer failed to achieve success.
Beta vs VHS.  Plan 9.

Does that mean they were worthless?  I don't think so.