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IMO Unix hasn't taken over as much as people think it has. If you look at an OS more closely they typically have a POSIX API layer on top of whatever unique ide

by swiley 6y ago

IMO Unix hasn't taken over as much as people think it has. If you look at an OS more closely they typically have a POSIX API layer on top of whatever unique ideas they have. Even Linux does quite a lot of its own thing.

pjmlp 6y ago
Most of the "new" Linux ideas you will find them in the mainframes world.
- mixmastamyk 6y ago
  I think this is largely a factor of PCs getting more powerful and the lag to libre implementations. Trying to build container infrastructure during the pentium 90 days wouldn’t have succeeded. See “the innovators dilemma” for the process.
njharman 6y ago
People don't know or underestimate how much Unix has taken over. From cellphones to super computers. From consumer devices to industrial control. Unix servers made and continue to run the internet, aka everything.
- ithkuil 6y ago
  This! Also, we take now many unix abstractions so much for granted that when they occur in different places we assume it's just convergent evolution.
- pjmlp 6y ago
  POSIX more than anything, many of those IoT OSes aren't anything UNIX related although they support some form of POSIX.