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by formerly_proven 1489 days ago
> Cutler famously disparaged the UNIX kernel (his notable saying was "Get a byte, get a byte, get a byte byte byte" to the tune of the finale of Rossini's William Tell Overture).

I'm pretty sure that had to be in reference to STREAMS, because the original UNIX I/O model certainly is not byte-oriented. So basically, entirely irrelevant.

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Maybe I should have used this one instead?

"Unix is a junk OS designed by a committee of PhDs." -Dave Cutler