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Except that in the process, Mach absorbed BSD and became a weird hybrid of the two. I worked on Mach as an undergrad at CMU when the BSD server was intended as
by wrs 3y ago
Except that in the process, Mach absorbed BSD and became a weird hybrid of the two. I worked on Mach as an undergrad at CMU when the BSD server was intended as a temporary expedient to port the Unix userland tools quickly. Instead, it made its way into the kernel.
- Ericson2314 3y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38761195 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38761195 Called something similar, "recidivism" which I think is a very apt word! We have to think critically about reform and how to have smooth/cheaper migrations without sloshing back and forth while making no progress.