[TUHS] SCCS, TeamWare, BitKeeper, and Git

[Alexis]

"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso at mit.edu> writes:

> [T]here's no question that Multics was a commercial failure, and 
> that
> Unix's simplicity and ease of porting to other architectures 
> besides
> the DPS-8/M was one of the reasons why Unix succeeded and 
> Multics has
> been consigned to the dustbin of history.
>
> ...
>
> One could make the argumet that "git was lucky; it was in the 
> right
> place at the right time, and managed to get mindshare", but I 
> suspect
> there are other people who might say the same thing about Unix 
> and it
> getting mindshare more out of luck than the fundametal 
> superiority of
> its technical architecture.
>
> And I think there are many on this list who would contest 
> mightily
> that Unix was "just lucky".

Gabriel's "Worse Is Better" essay is coming irresistibly to mind 
.... i'd certainly be interested in this list's opinion of that 
piece, 30+ years later.


Alexis.