[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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