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

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

Posted Nov 24, 2010 8:16 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Ghosts of Unix past, part 4: High-maintenance designs by foom
Parent article: Ghosts of Unix past, part 4: High-maintenance designs

Yes, but if you were designing a new system from scratch, would you choose to do that the way Unix has? I know I wouldn't.

(And you mean 'while *optionally* preserving the ability to switch back': a lot of programs really don't want to keep that ability.)


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