UNIX is fundamentally dedicated to the proposition that there is nothing that you can or could wish to do on a multicore 64 bit ARM system with a massively para

UNIX is fundamentally dedicated to the proposition that there is nothing that you can or could wish to do on a multicore 64 bit ARM system with a massively parallel GPU subsystem with its own memory, solid state disks and a fibernet backbone, that fundamentally differs from a PDP11 with a teletype and some magnetic tape drives attached to it. It's not entirely clear whether that proposition's actually true. I think in particular when you look at things like the ability of that operating system abstraction to handle stuff like GPU accelerated computation (CUDA and the like) it's possible that the insistence that the only abstractions we need are processes, pipes, sockets and inodes starts feeling a little limiting.