Unix Has Retarded Os Research

Unix Is Simple And Coherent, But It Takes A Genius (or At Any Rate, A Programmer) To Understand And Appreciate Its Simplicity.

Some Consider Unix To Be The Second Most Important Invention To Come Out Of At&t Bell Labs After The Transistor.

Pretty Much Everything On The Web Uses Those Two Things: C And Unix.

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.