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For a little while at the university I became what happens to many software engineering students, a UNIX zealot that used to write email signatures with the usual M$ joke back then.

Then the university library opened my eyes to the world of Xerox PARC, and the computing decades that predated UNIX, and my point of view changed forever, that cloning UNIX all the time couldn't be the epitome of OS design.

At least I agree with Rob Pike in something,

"Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy"

From https://interviews.slashdot.org/story/04/10/18/1153211/rob-p...



I wonder who the appropriate musician is for Windows?

(Note Windows also has a Posix compatibility layer - WSL1; WSL2 probably qualifies as using Linux, albeit wrapped in a VM.)




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