Comment by kjs3
14 hours ago
At least someone hasn't complained about it being 'unix like', always without defining what the non-unix-like OS they want would look like, or where the software to run on it would come from.
14 hours ago
At least someone hasn't complained about it being 'unix like', always without defining what the non-unix-like OS they want would look like, or where the software to run on it would come from.
First, we could start by what UNIX authors did after they considered UNIX done, looking at Plan 9 and Inferno.
Then there are the OSes already done during the 1960 and 1970 outside Bell Labs, as possible ideas.
As from where the software would come from, if we keep recicling UNIX, we will keep getting UNIX regardless of whatever cool features the OS might offer, as most developers are lazy.
Hence why it is great that while Apple and Google OSes have some UNIX there, bare bones POSIX apps will hardly make it into the store.
Because it is not UNIX like.
It does provide some degree of POSIX compatibility, but it does not dictate architecture.