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From: gil@banyan.UUCP (Gil Pilz@Eng@Banyan)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: UNIX
Message-ID: <1112@banyan.UUCP>
Date: 13 Nov 90 22:01:18 GMT
References: <43115@mips.mips.COM>
Reply-To: gil@banyan.com
Organization: Empire of the Senseless
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In article <43115@mips.mips.COM> mark@mips.COM (Mark G. Johnson) writes:
>Looks like folks are now beginning to credit the development
>of UNIX to Kernighan and Ritchie, but I thought the principal
>investigators were *Thompson* and Ritchie.  Did something change?

Ooops ! Mea Culpa (shows what happens when you just grab text) I still
stand by my basic arguement, though. As long as we have a market
driven by simplistic enumeration of system "features" we're going to
get bulky systems comprised of poorly integrated, hacked-on kludges to
what once were a fairly elegant and simple systems (we could start all
over again with . . say MACH, and in 5 years or less we'd have
another, slightly different, gigantic mess)

That is, UNLESS we can "sell" a new buzz-concept: the Reduced Feature
Set System (All the advantages of RISC only now at the system level !
Build your OWN features quickly and easily through the simple
combination of these basic features ! Prototype and test new software
with speed and ease !) . . . naaah, it'll never work.

"sometimes it makes me sad
 when I think of what gets wasted
 the time spent, the lives lost
 the dishes never tasted"
	- sam hill

Gilbert Pilz Jr.  "I don't believe in nihilism, anarchy is too confining
gil@banyan.com     for me, I have no opinion about apathy." - g. panfile