26 Jan
2021
26 Jan
'21
8:53 a.m.
On Mon, 25 Jan 2021, M Douglas McIlroy wrote:
It might be interesting to compare your final list
with the two lists in
the 1978 special issue of the BSTJ--one in the Foreword, the other in the
revised version of the Ritchi/Thompson article from the CACM. How have
perceptions or values changed over time?
Doug
Funny thing is I came into *x (Solaris, and then Linux) relatively late -
ca. 1997, after I had been using MS-DOS and ProDOS for years, which were
the operating systems I compared it to.
It was because MS-DOS had adopted ideas from Xenix that *x was easier to
acclimate to than other OSes I'd used.
-uso.