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Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 10:47:19 -0700
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To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: is KERNEL developement finished, yet ???
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On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 06:09:56PM +0000, Alan Cox 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.

The advantage of POSIX is that it allows you to work on interesting app and OS problems
instead of API, which is not interesting.
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