The Number Of Unix Installations

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.

My Work Was Fairly Theoretical. It Was In Recursive Function Theory. And In Particular, Hierarchies Of Functions In Terms Of Computational Complexity. I Got Involved In Real Computers And Programming Mainly By Being - Well, I Was Interested Even As I Came To Graduate School.

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.

Any Editing, Software Work, And Mail Is Done In This Exported Plan 9

The True-gnu Philosophy Is More Extreme Than I Care For, But It Certainly Laid A Foundation For The Current Scene, As Well As Providing Real Software.