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From: Olaf Titz <olaf@bigred.inka.de>
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> 	* you've ignored the robustness of design behind the UNIX kernel.
> These beasts keep going without falling apart even after serious injuries.

Do you mean design or operation? In fact UNIX design has a number of
serious errors/problems, we just have gotten accustomed to it so much
that we don't care any more. Here the robustness is in fact inertia.

Robust operation is possible with any halfway cleanly designed system,
cf. VMS.

Olaf
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