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Little tangent, but what do you consider better than Unix? I don’t have much experience with anything else so I’m curious.
by rtkaratekid 6y ago
Little tangent, but what do you consider better than Unix? I don’t have much experience with anything else so I’m curious.
- pjmlp 6y agoAnything based on the workstation concepts explored at Xerox PARC, and further pursued at ETHZ, TI and Genera. Bitsavers has all the necessary papers and manuals, and computer museum as well. Here are some video sessions. "Yesterday's Computer of Tomorrow: The Xerox Alto │Smalltalk-76 Demo" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqKyHEJe9_w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqKyHEJe9_w "Alto System Project: Dan Ingalls demonstrates Smalltalk" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uknEhXyZgsg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uknEhXyZgsg "Eric Bier Demonstrates Cedar" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_dt7NG38V4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_dt7NG38V4 "The Final Demonstration of the Xerox 'Star' computer" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OwG_rQ_Hqw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OwG_rQ_Hqw The end of the road from Plan 9, Inferno. http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/index.html http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/index.html http://doc.cat-v.org/inferno/4th_edition/ http://doc.cat-v.org/inferno/4th_edition/
- krebs_liebhaber 6y agoSmall tangent: It's sad that the Mother of All Demos still looks like the future of computing. Google Docs and its siblings come close, but they still don't match it in scope.
- danieldk 6y agoBesides what pjmlp said. I was thinking of Plan 9, VMS, NT (the kernel, which takes a lot if ideas from VMS), L4. Of course, out of these, NT did succeed wildly as well did L4 (e.g. iOS secure enclave). Some improve in the architecture, some in user land, some in both :).