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Forgetting the history of Unix is coding us into a corner

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The Register; By Liam Proven 		Mail this story
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The lessons of yesteryear's OS are getting lost in translation. FOSDEM 2024 There are vital lessons to be learned from the history of Unix, but they're being forgotten. This is leading to truly vast amounts of wasted effort.…

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dba477 ·
It very accurately sets out the philosophy lost by many developers in the daily hustle and bustle
gus3 ·
How much history must we study, to make sense of the present? To go to the ISS, we learn about physics and chemistry, not history. But, to design the next ISS/moon/Mars satellite, an appreciation of history makes the future easier.

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