Linux and the Unix Philosophy

One reason for the success of Unix is that it has always been regarded as an

operating system that is worse than others in many respects. It was never used

for any so-called serious work, as such tasks were usually left to industrial-

strength commercial operating systems. Unix typically occupied the lower

echelon of hardware configurations instead. It found a home on the minicom

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puter, a machine that lacked the brute force of a large mainframe, but was

powerful enough for more mundane work. Since minicomputers were typi

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cally used for less important tasks, it didn’t make sense for hardware vendors

to invest lots of money in minicomputer operating ...