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They made banking computers, seems relevant there, and also typewriters from what I briefly looked at. Were the typewriters memory safe too? If they were not, w
by GhettoComputers 5y ago
They made banking computers, seems relevant there, and also typewriters from what I briefly looked at. Were the typewriters memory safe too? If they were not, what was the benefit, and if they weren't do you see my point?
By the forces of the market, POSIX won because it had more useful features. Personal computers where you were expected to load software yourself and were not connected to any threats? I do not see any reason for me to care about that even today, and its not because programmers had bad habits, they made reasonable tradeoffs, making worst performing software for nonexistent threats of that time is not teaching them bad programming, over engineering for nonexistent threats is bad programming. In non networked devices, I still see no benefit.
- pjmlp 5y agoPOSIX won thanks to free beer, had AT&T been allowed to sell it from day one, history would have been quite differently. It is like 1 euro shops, quality is not what customers are looking for.
- GhettoComputers 5y agoNo, it won because it was better. You ignore every question I ask about how memory safety is useful or relevant for those uses.
- pjmlp 5y agoBecause UNIX won the same way people flock to 1 euro shops, quality has nothing to do with it, free beer is what counts. Had UNIX been sold like every other OS from the same decade, and it would have been a footnote on the history of OS. When one is thirsty any liquid goes down regardless of the taste.
- GhettoComputers 5y agoGood idea, lets ban Linux and all the free software, and make all free ones paid.