[TUHS] After 50 years, what has the Impact of Unix been?

[Rich Salz]

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> I would add one more important impact: making data a first class component
> of the computing environment.
>

Related to that is getting rid of "file types". I remember at a "lessons of
Unix" panel at a Usenix, that someone from the Labs gave an example of a
situation where the operating system treated a file as more than just a set
of bytes (think IBM, VMS, etc).  Read a source file (required them to do a
bunch of file-conversion operations), write an output, perhaps changing a
variable name from 'foo' to 'bar', and then compiling the output, which
also required a bunch of file-conversion operations.
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