Re:Programmer's critique of missing structure of operating s...
by jamesrcole on Thursday February 20, 2020 @03:17AM
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The important question here is, why? Was it because of those features? Or something else?
I don't know, but one major factor in OS adoption is network effects. "The rich get richer", and it's very hard to introduce a new and different system, no matter how good it is.
Re:Programmer's critique of missing structure of operating s...
by teddyh on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @07:18AM
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Unlike Unix, which was basically free software and therefore extendable and available for companies to build their own versions of, Plan 9 was proprietary from Bell Labs.
I don't know, but one major factor in OS adoption is network effects. "The rich get richer", and it's very hard to introduce a new and different system, no matter how good it is.