
At this juncture, it is appropriate to engage in a short discussion of the phi
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losophies of a few other operating systems besides Unix. We’re not going to
delve deeply into this area, as we do not intend to embark upon a treatise on
comparative operating system philosophies. But a brief foray into several
other “religions” of the software world should prove enlightening, if only to
illuminate why the Unix approach is such a radical departure from other soft
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ware design ...