The author seems to have forgotten about DEC's MIPS DECstation line. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECstation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECstation Also, p

The author seems to have forgotten about DEC's MIPS DECstation line. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECstation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECstation Also, per recent discussion on the NetBSD tech-kern mailing list, it is better to describe flock as per open since it is not actually tied to the file descriptor itself. The article mentions issues with dup and thinking about it as per descriptor leads to surprises. This is still a reasonable file system design today via slightly modernized versions of FFS or basic ext2. fsck times are not that bad with SSDs.