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I enjoyed a bit of Unix and C bashing here (): "Unix, C, and Pascal may be excellent teaching and development tools, but they may not be so good for commercial
by noisy_boy 5y ago
I enjoyed a bit of Unix and C bashing here (): "Unix, C, and Pascal may be excellent teaching and development tools, but they may not be so good for commercial production work."
(): https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1982-08/page/n19/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1982-08/page/n19/m...
- pjmlp 5y agoHad UNIX been sold at the same price as VMS and other systems back in the day, without any kind of source code available, history would have taken another path.
- mwcampbell 5y agoThat was probably true back then. My understanding is that Unix wasn't ready for commercial production work until the late 80s at least.
- davidgay 5y agoSun launched in 1982, went public in 1986 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems). One might presume that its customers thought it ready for commercial production work by the mid 80s at least...
- DonHopkins 5y agoYes, they had a viable commercial Unix product from 1982 until the release of Solaris in 1992. It all went downhill from there. ;)