Ghosts of Unix past, part 4: High-maintenance designs

Thus far, Neil Brown's series on Unix design patterns has covered successful patterns, conflated designs, and unfixable designs. In the fourth and final installment in this series, Neil looks at high-maintenance designs: those which can be made to work, but at a high cost to the system as a whole. Click below (subscribers only) for the full text.

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