Re:Little Things That Made Amiga Great
by swiley on Sunday November 29, 2020 @10:25AM
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IMO Unix hasn't taken over as much as people think it has. If you look at an OS more closely they typically have a POSIX API layer on top of whatever unique ideas they have. Even Linux does quite a lot of its own thing.
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People don't know or underestimate how much Unix has taken over. From cellphones to super computers. From consumer devices to industrial control. Unix servers made and continue to run the internet, aka everything.
This! Also, we take now many unix abstractions so much for granted that when they occur in different places we assume it's just convergent evolution.
POSIX more than anything, many of those IoT OSes aren't anything UNIX related although they support some form of POSIX.
Most of the "new" Linux ideas you will find them in the mainframes world.
Re:Little Things That Made Amiga Great
by mixmastamyk on Sunday November 29, 2020 @02:20PM
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I think this is largely a factor of PCs getting more powerful and the lag to libre implementations. Trying to build container infrastructure during the pentium 90 days wouldn’t have succeeded.
See “the innovators dilemma” for the process.