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by caslon
1925 days ago
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> McIlroy's maxims are explicating the Unix philosophy This is why I used the quote, not for this reason: > but I don't read him as saying that systems which historically count as Unix aren't really Unix if they fall short in following his maxims. I'd say yes, a port of v7 is fine, because it's not meaningfully more complex. It can still be comprehended by a single individual (unlike FreeBSD, Linux, everything currently called Certified Commercial UNIX trademark symbol, etcetera). |
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I think AT&T's port of V7 (or something close to V7, I guess it was probably actually a variant of PWB) to run on top of TSS/370 really is meaningfully more complex because in order to understand it you also have to understand IBM TSS/370 and the interactions between TSS/370 and Unix.