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by Fnoord 2710 days ago
What do you propose as alternative? All of these UNIX tools provide backwards compatibility.
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petre 2710 days ago
Plan9? But it's still ahead of its time. I think it would be quite hard to port something like Haiku UI to such a platform. POSIX is fine.
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pjmlp 2710 days ago
Actually Inferno, Plan 9 was the middle iteration.
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AnIdiotOnTheNet 2710 days ago
We have virtualization nowadays to cover compatibility requirements.
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