For Books, I Don't Read

Oh, I've Seen Copies [of Linux Journal] Around The Terminal Room At The Labs.

... With Proper Design, The Features Come Cheaply. This Approach Is Arduous, But Continues To Succeed.

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.

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.

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.