[HN Gopher] Unix's (technical) history is mostly old now
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Unix's (technical) history is mostly old now
Author : zdw
Score : 14 points
Date : 2022-11-25 16:00 UTC (7 hours ago)
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| ianai wrote:
| *nix is clearly some IT equivalent of a very powerful idea. Part
| of good tooling is being able to point back to a history of
| stability and success. The other huge player, Microsoft, somewhat
| famously is tied to an unchanging user interface. I think this
| illustrates my point.
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| But there clearly is growth and change in important places - and
| more still needed in others. It surprises me that ZFS isn't the
| default more places or something to replace it whole cloth. It
| feels like a good thing that I type this on an iOS device -
| descended from the BSDs but you'd never know from first glance.
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