Do OS's slow down with age? (was: DDJ article / UNIX vs BS/2)

[Bob Sloane]

In article <9360 at smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ) writes:

> "Portability" is relative, not absolute.  UNIX (or, according to some
> Bell Labs staff, "Unix"; definitely not "unix") can be and has many
> times been ported to new, considerably different environments with far
> less work than a total reimplementation would have called for.  That
> has not been demonstrated for VMS, for reasons that are obvious to most.

I guess I should put more smiley faces in the stuff I post.  I was just trying
to point out that there are about a zillion different "uNiX's" and, as far as
I can tell, all of them are incompatible with all of the others in some way or
other.  I really don't want to start another OS war.
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