13 Aug
2024
13 Aug
'24
8:14 p.m.
Luther Johnson <luther.johnson(a)makerlisp.com> wrote:
I really enjoy all the history and perspective. A
phrase just popped in
to my head, that I think for me, sums up much of Unix evolution. And it
is something that not all Linux developers get, as many continue to
mutate Linux further and further away from traditional Unix ideas:
Necessity is the mother of *convention*.
This was carried even further in Plan 9, making it possible to transparently
network systems of different architectures.
Arnold