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- From: rsk@gynko.circ.upenn.edu (Rich Kulawiec)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
- Subject: Re: The Problem with UNIX
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- Date: 13 Nov 92 02:07:48 GMT
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- In article <BxM9JI.4yw@mtholyoke.edu> jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz) writes:
- >I agree. Heh... Not only are those who keep pronouncing the death of
- >Unix dead wrong, but their credibility is starting to rot.
-
- In that same vein, from time to time, I recall with great satisfaction
- a conversation I had with one of the bigwigs at Forth, Inc. back in 1982.
- This person explained to me in glorious detail why Unix was just a passing
- thing, and how in a couple of years we'd all be writing Forth and running
- their monitor-like OS, and ...
-
- I think of this everytime I read another vaporware announcement
- concerning Windows NT. Unix outlasted CP/M and VMS and RSTS and
- AOS and <add your favorite long-obsolete operating system here>; I suspect
- that it will outlast Windows NT as well. (Although Plan 9 could
- give it a serious run for the money in a few years.)
-
- ---Rsk
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