Comments by "TheEvertw" (@TheEvertw) on "The Computer Chronicles" channel.

  1. It is funny to hear them talking about the reliability of UNIX. Remember that they are comparing UNIX to other mainframe operating systems like IBM OS/360 and its descendants, certainly not to MS-DOS or its descendants. In OS/360, the system stays running even if a CPU burns out.
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  2. When a teenager (late seventies -- early eighties) I had my first encounters with UNIX in the engineers that worked for my father who used UNIX and were very enthusiastic about it. Then at Uni I had my first look at it in the form of an Apollo Workstation. After that, SUN workstations with which I fell in love -- but couldn't afford for personal use. Then I had to wait for Linux to become really usable, in the early naughts. Around 2013-14 I wiped Windows off my work laptop and never looked back. Proving Mr. Schindler completely wrong. We have only one Windows computer in the house: the school laptop my oldest son uses.
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  3. Funny that Bill Joy made that remark about UNIX missing an office suite. By acquiring, porting and then Open-Sourcing staroffice - OpenOffice - LibreOffice etc, he like no other removed that particular obstacle.
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  4. Knowing how this developed, this introduction is particularly painful. But for the grotesque stupidity, shortsightedness and selfishness of the UNIX companies, it would have overtaken MS-DOS and Windows before they got their monopolies. Instead we had two decades of struggling with inferior SW.
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