Curiously, GNU was born in that era, to give the Unix users the freedom from ITS, Maclisp, Emacs and the rest of the projects from MIT. Instead of having slow-

Curiously, GNU was born in that era, to give the Unix users the freedom from ITS, Maclisp, Emacs and the rest of the projects from MIT. Instead of having slow-ish boot times in a Lisp machine, GNU's plan was to put several memory-protected concurrent interpreters under Unix, giving the user far more power by default with GNU/Hurd against a common Unix users. WIth namespaces, for instance, you could forget about suid and/or needing group perms to mount a device or access different media and soundcards.