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Kill Unix? Bell Labs tried to kill their child and supplant it with plan-9 and inferno. It failed. Not because they were bad OSs, but because once you have m
by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
Kill Unix?
Bell Labs tried to kill their child and supplant it with plan-9 and inferno.
It failed.
Not because they were bad OSs, but because once you have market domination and code, things _must_ be backwards compatible.
If Linux/GNU didn't imitate POSIX, it wouldn't be any more popular than Haiku.
- pjmlp 9y agoAnd so C use grew instead of dying, as Apple and Microsoft systems were already focusing on C++.