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C Is Peculiar In A Lot Of Ways, But It, Like Many Other Successful Things, Has A Certain Unity Of Approach That Stems From Development In A Small Group.

One Of The Obvious Things That Went Wrong With Multics As A Commercial Success Was Just That It Was Sort Of Over-engineered In A Sense. There Was Just Too Much In It.

Steve Jobs Has Said That Xwindows Is Brain-damamged And Will Disappear In Two Years. He Got It Half-right.

It's True That Compared With The Scene When Unix Started, Today The Ecological Niches Are Fairly Full, And Fresh New Os Ideas Are Harder To Come By, Or At Least To Propagate.

From An Operating System Research Point Of View, Unix Is If Not Dead Certainly Old Stuff, And It's Clear That People Should Be Looking Beyond It.