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Re:Minix 3.3.0 by mwcampbell on Tuesday September 16, 2014 @04:00PM (#8326754)
In your opinion, what would be the advantages of a Mac OS X based on BeOS rather than BSD Unix? Or is your point merely that a Unix monoculture is inherently bad? (I think it's more like a common ancestor than a monoculture, though perhaps the descendants haven't diverged very far.)
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Re:Minix 3.3.0 by pjmlp on Tuesday September 16, 2014 @04:06PM (#8326788)
Diversity. It would have been BeOS vs UNIX vs Windows, instead of UNIX vs Windows on the desktop.

All monocultures are bad.

What happened is that now young developer generations think that UNIX and Windows are the only OS in town and disregard all the other ones out there being used.

As such they only focus their efforts into UNIX way, instead of trying to come up with new ideas.

For example, how to move away from C for systems programming, when C is married with UNIX? This is just one example.

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Re:Minix 3.3.0 by Zardoz84 on Wednesday September 17, 2014 @02:47AM (#8328840)
AmigaOS have some interesting different things.
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