Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Dec 2000 15:21:16 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit |
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On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Dietmar Kling wrote:
> > You do realize what "evolution" means? I'm not talking about the bugs > > in implementation. I'm talking about botched design. _That_ never gets > > fixed. Show me one example when that would happen and I might consider > > taking such possibility seriously. > > That's what I am talking about in my "mean" attitude. Some things > must be carried until the dead end. When there's no place to move > anymore than new things will evolve.
Minix is still alive.
> < short thinking > > As for your second point. Take libc5 and libc6. I really have no > *deep* insight. But I believe redesigning it for Multithreading > was mayor step.
... and libc6 was not a result of evolution of libc5 - they have a common ancestor, but they got several years of divergent evolution before the displacement had happened.
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