article i posted that died

[Henry Spencer]

> ...a unix filesystem is fragile...

This is superstition, not fact.  It hasn't been true for quite a while.

> the success of unix has little to do with how good it is but more
> how easy it was to port to another machine...

Unix was quite successful on the pdp11 before it was ever ported to
anything else.  Which was why it got ported to other machines in the first
place.

> ...it needs work to make it run on bigger machines supporting a
> proportinately larger number of users.

It's been done.  Ask Amdahl.

> the filesystem needs to be less fragile.

It's been done, long ago.

> the documentation needs improvement.

Still a problem area.  Although the documentation for most other systems
also needs improvement, for different reasons:  it drowns you in verbiage
and detail.  One thing Unix does *not* need is documentation that is
"improved" to that point.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
				{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry