Forgetting the history of Unix is coding us into a corner [The Register] - eviltoast
    • kbal@kbin.melroy.org
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      9 months ago

      Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson […] ignored what the industry was doing, went back to their original ideas, and kept working on refining them. The result is the next step in the development of Unix

      Plan 9 is clearly what the article is talking about. Odd that they don’t name it.

      • BaumGeist@lemmy.ml
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        9 months ago

        They do, if you consider that this article doesn’t stand alone at all and read the blurb at the very bottom in italics acknowledging that it’s part of a bigger series