Re: is KERNEL developement finished, yet ???

Kai Henningsen (kaih@khms.westfalen.de)
07 Dec 2002 22:39:00 +0200


alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) wrote on 05.12.02 in <1039111796.19636.27.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>:

> On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 12:54, Joseph D. Wagner wrote:

> > I don't know of any mistakes per say, but if I had to do it over again,
> > there's about a thousands things I'd do differently (preference in design
> > choices, not mistakes) especially not to cling so religiously to POSIX
> > compliance.
>
> And then you'd have no applications.

And this is why every existing OS is POSIX compliant.

What do you mean, it isn't?

People actually started new, incompatible OSes from time to time, for
which there were no applications, and some of those actually succeeded?

And in fact Unix was one of those?

MfG Kai
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