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From: lauren@RAND-UNIX.ARPA
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Subject: Re: Unix and the future
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Date: Mon, 8-Apr-85 22:02:05 EST
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That's exactly my point.  The ease of porting the system has (in effect)
slowed development of other operating systems.  Major efforts to write
a different sort of system have been stymied by the cost/effectiveness
of just moving Unix to another piece of hardware.  My point is that 
a completely different sort of system, with completely different
tools that are not tied to the existing Unix conceptual framework, might
be an interesting task for a group of people who were NOT particularly
interested in cost/effectiveness issues but rather in technical issues
and the state of the art.

I've been working with Unix since the dim days of Version 5 (not to be
confused with System V!) and I'm not knocking Unix.  What I am saying
is that to the extent that new software efforts spend much of their
time emulating the same old Unix patterns from the mid-70's, a lot
of new ways of doing things, that could well be much better in the middle
to long run, will be ignored.

--Lauren--