Darren New wrote:

> I think it's not so much that Linus T said "If I make it look like UNIX, 
> I can use all the tools."  I think it was probably at least as much "If 
> I make it look like UNIX, I won't have to figure out how an OS *should* 
> work."  Hence, it starts out with all the brokenness of UNIX, then 
> slowly piles on even more patches to try to make it useful, as long as 
> you're not trying to maintain binary compatibility anyway.

The mental image of coding a broken system from scratch and then piling 
more complexity on top really amused me for some reason.

I guess because it's so true. ;-)

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