Re: Andrew Tanenbaum AP story
From: Marshall Spight <mspight_at_dnai.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 21:00:21 GMT
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Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 21:00:21 GMT
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"Dan" <guntermann_at_verizon.com> wrote in message news:jcvhd.9820$vJ.253_at_trnddc02...
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> Obviously Linux wasn't obsolete...
Why do you say that? Because it's popular? Is it necessarily the case that anything popular can't be obsolete?
The linux kernel is a clone of an architecture that was popular in the 1970s. But by the 1980s, operating system people were moving on to newer, more flexible architectures. Linux certainly qualifies as "outmoded in design, style, or construction."
Buy the latest RedHat today, and you won't get much from the operating system that wasn't available in BSD in 1980.
An interesting read:
http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/rob/utah2000.pdf
Marshall Received on Tue Nov 02 2004 - 22:00:21 CET