3 ms·Also it was fast on crappy hardware and easy to compile and setup. 80%. Better is worse. Unix.by jacobush 10y agoAlso it was fast on crappy hardware and easy to compile and setup. 80%. Better is worse. Unix.jpgvm 10y agoThat is not Unix. Unix is small, composable, correct and 80% of what you need (you write the rest). It doesn't mean 20% of quality was sacrificed.pvg 10y agoThe original "worse is better" example is precisely about Unix making a trade-off in which it gives up on "correctness"