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This is honestly so true. I'll admit i had to do some research on what plan 9 and Multics is. My only question is why do you think we should be using Multics?
by anbardoi 3y ago
This is honestly so true. I'll admit i had to do some research on what plan 9 and Multics is. My only question is why do you think we should be using Multics?
- eadmund 3y ago> why do you think we should be using Multics? No actual evidence, to be honest, and I don’t think it, only wonder it (thus the ‘I wonder if maybe …?’ phrasing). I’ve never used it, I just know that it was in some ways a predecessor of Unix and I believe it was designed as a coherent whole; I wonder if it — like so many other things — could have been iterated on rather than replaced. It’s so much more fun to replace things, but I have come to think that it is very often less work to evolve a system than to replace one. Not an idea original to me: Joel Spolsky wrote about it in 2000!