Windows is more of a VAX/VMS descendant.
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which have quite a lot in common (files, syscalls). But IMHO we will move to sth new, based on file-free philosophy in next 10 yrs.
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the CPU/machine centric paradigm with networking as auxiliary is ripe for disruption IMHO. Network compute power FTW.
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I think of Windows NT as more VMS than CP/M... (Hence VMS -> WNT)
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Right; expanded my stray thought.
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Jaron Lanier did a decent job of addressing this in You Are Not a Gadget, e.g. single-user devices running on time-sharing arch
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including chromebooks! which use the Linux kernel . . .
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I’d say ”students and“ descendants. Linux e.g. is clearly if the UNIX school, but an all-new implementation.
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(OS X OTOH actually is a UNIX by double descent, FreeBSD on the low level + IIRC Nextstep on the high)
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