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There were always objections. "Unix went from being the worst operating system available, to being the best operating system available, without getting appreci
by dllthomas 8y ago
There were always objections.
"Unix went from being the worst operating system available, to being the best operating system available, without getting appreciably better."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19416485 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19416485
Which isn't to say that those POV were necessarily correct, just that it isn't all hindsight.
- the_af 8y agoTo be fair, there are always objections to any working piece of technology. It's not helpful to claim "it was never good design". It was a working design that drove technology to the point it is now, and in that sense it was hugely successful. What kind of perfect and pure tech do some people want, anyway? Pick anything, whatever they like -- say, Plan 9 or OS/2 or whatever -- and I can bet you in a parallel universe where that tech won, someone on para-HN will claim that it sucked and it was never a good design and if only Unix had won.
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- dllthomas 8y agoI certainly don't disagree that it was successful, and (coming into technology when I did) I've always personally liked it. I just found the writings around what came before interesting. > I can bet you in a parallel universe where that tech won, someone on para-HN will claim that it sucked and it was never a good design and if only Unix had won. I'd take the same side of that bet as you :-P