13 Jun
2009
13 Jun
'09
1:22 a.m.
On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 04:28 -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
On Jun 11, 2009, at 2:53 PM, Kirn Gill wrote:
There's always something you can do to an icecube tray. Making them out
of silicone for example, so you can flex them to get the ice out more
easily.
Gordon
I hate statements like this. It gives the
feeling, without any actual
implication (for you semantics nazis out there), that since a few good
OSes survived (VMS, UNIX, MVS, etc.), the rest came along. CP/M? Dead.
TOPS-20? Dead. TENEX? Dead. ITS? Dead.
No, I am not saying that these four are "inferior" in that statement.
My point is that no significant support and development happens for
these OSes. Therefore, they are "dead".
Are support and development actually secondary to *use*? I don't
think so. You don't see much support or development going on with,
say, ice cube trays. They've been perfected for decades, and the
people who use them know how and tend not to require support.
They're not "dead".