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by pjmlp 1775 days ago
Many keep trying since 1950's, unfortunely it took a free beer OS to spoil it, and now it is a quixotic battle of multiple generations to come, to bring it back into course.
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yjftsjthsd-h 1775 days ago
Free OSs didn't spoil it, since their competition was also written in memory unsafe languages
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pjmlp 1775 days ago
The competition to UNIX wasn't written in memory unsafe languages, at least not as unsafe as C.

JOVIAL, NEWP, BLISS, PL/I, PL/S, PL.8, Mesa, Modula-2, Object Pascal, Concurrent Pascal, ....

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