Unix [was: do...until wisdom needed...]

[Douglas Alan]

Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings at roundpoint.com> writes:

> Andrew Kuchling <akuchlin at mems-exchange.org> writes:

> > (Someday I have to borrow the time machine and incite someone to
> > write a free Unix for the 386 when it first came out.  Unix + X
> > would have been serious competition for Windows 3.x, and we might
> > not be in so much of a software monoculture right now.)

> Only if Unix had been more compatible with Unix, and with ordinary
> human beings.

A free and popular Unix would have only had to be compatible with
itself.  DOS, which was the competition at the time, not Windoze 3.1,
was certainly no more compatible with human beings than Unix was.

|>oug