> And they managed to make a distributed kernel that worked. So it was great the same way Smalltalk and ITS were great: It was wonderful, but most of us couldn

> And they managed to make a distributed kernel that worked. So it was great the same way Smalltalk and ITS were great: It was wonderful, but most of us couldn't use it, so it was worthless. Technical acumen doesn't matter if the result isn't out in a usable form.