15 Dec
2024
15 Dec
'24
10:15 a.m.
"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso(a)mit.edu> writes:
[T]here's no question that Multics was a
commercial failure, and
that
Unix's simplicity and ease of porting to other architectures
besides
the DPS-8/M was one of the reasons why Unix succeeded and
Multics has
been consigned to the dustbin of history.
...
One could make the argumet that "git was lucky; it was in the
right
place at the right time, and managed to get mindshare", but I
suspect
there are other people who might say the same thing about Unix
and it
getting mindshare more out of luck than the fundametal
superiority of
its technical architecture.
And I think there are many on this list who would contest
mightily
that Unix was "just lucky".
Gabriel's "Worse Is Better" essay is coming irresistibly to mind
.... i'd certainly be interested in this list's opinion of that
piece, 30+ years later.
Alexis.