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The wild world of non-C operating systems

Arthur the cat Silver badge

Re: Necrophilia for fun and profit

This article is the equivalent of the era of bubonic plague(*)

In some cases it's more

Your father's OS. An elegant system for a more … civilised age(**).

Multics, Burroughs' MCP and Genera all had features that today's mainstream OSes lack or do badly.

(*) First known bubonic plague outbreak was ~3000 BCE, it's still around today. Long era.

(**) ObXKCD.

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