I know (you'd said up-thread). > and we had to go through a large number of design mistakes, mostly involving signals. Eh, Unix signals themselves were a bit

I know (you'd said up-thread). > and we had to go through a large number of design mistakes, mostly involving signals. Eh, Unix signals themselves were a bit of a design mistake, especially SIGPIPE (which was a byproduct of the lack of error checking in Unix programs). The reality is that Unix was too simple an OS, but the reality too is that that simplicity was the key to its success.