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Basically only two paradigms survived the 90s. The Unix way (via Linux, BSD, Darwin) and the VMS way (via Windows NT). Everything else is either ultra-niche, dy

Basically only two paradigms survived the 90s. The Unix way (via Linux, BSD, Darwin) and the VMS way (via Windows NT). Everything else is either ultra-niche, dying, a mainframe so ancient and terrifying nobody will go near it, or only of marginal historical import. Bear in mind that when this book was written, the average desktop PC was running MS-DOS, and possibly Windows 3.1 if it was new and powerful enough. What UNIX is being compared to is the other mainframe OSes of the 1980s, from DEC's VAX/VMS to IBM's OS/360 and OS/400

omginternets 10y ago
I googled "the VMS way" an got this: https://youtu.be/96LQ9_jiwQ4 https://youtu.be/96LQ9_jiwQ4 Very 90's, but I think this is what I was actually looking for ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVMS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVMS
pjmlp 10y ago
The Xerox way also influenced Windows, OS X, iOS and Android and to certain extent ChromeOS. In regards to IDEs, frameworks, programming languages culture.
- waz0wski 10y ago
  There's a good book about this, called 'Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age' http://a.co/9Gp3tQ7 http://a.co/9Gp3tQ7
nickpsecurity 10y ago
Seems like a good summary. Let's not forget that microkernels and RTOS's dominate embedded. http://www.cs.vu.nl//~ast/reliable-os/ http://www.cs.vu.nl//~ast/reliable-os/ Microkernels are also favored in the safety- and security-critical niches in high-assurance systems. Although niche, it's tens to hundreds of millions of dollars in activity over the past decade. Seemed worth adding as a surviving paradigm given that. One of more successful ones below. http://www.ghs.com/products/safety_critical/integrity-do-178b.html http://www.ghs.com/products/safety_critical/integrity-do-178...
mcguire 10y ago
Note: this book is copyright 1994, the same year linux 1.0.0 was released.

omginternets 10y ago

I googled "the VMS way" an got this: https://youtu.be/96LQ9_jiwQ4 https://youtu.be/96LQ9_jiwQ4 Very 90's, but I think this is what I was actually looking for ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVMS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVMS

pjmlp 10y ago

The Xerox way also influenced Windows, OS X, iOS and Android and to certain extent ChromeOS. In regards to IDEs, frameworks, programming languages culture.

waz0wski 10y ago
There's a good book about this, called 'Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age' http://a.co/9Gp3tQ7 http://a.co/9Gp3tQ7

nickpsecurity 10y ago

Seems like a good summary. Let's not forget that microkernels and RTOS's dominate embedded. http://www.cs.vu.nl//~ast/reliable-os/ http://www.cs.vu.nl//~ast/reliable-os/ Microkernels are also favored in the safety- and security-critical niches in high-assurance systems. Although niche, it's tens to hundreds of millions of dollars in activity over the past decade. Seemed worth adding as a surviving paradigm given that. One of more successful ones below. http://www.ghs.com/products/safety_critical/integrity-do-178b.html http://www.ghs.com/products/safety_critical/integrity-do-178...

mcguire 10y ago