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UNIX had a weak design. It won not because it was good, but because it ran on more computers. There are many other OSes of that time period that had superior
by davexunit 9y ago
UNIX had a weak design. It won not because it was good, but because it ran on more computers. There are many other OSes of that time period that had superior designs.
The Lisp Machine had way better composition primitives than UNIX's pipes passing plain text around.
- xfer 9y agoThe part of the problem they were hard to implement efficiently back then.