Why LispOS?

Kragen kragen@pobox.com
Wed, 25 Mar 1998 17:44:24 -0500 (EST)


On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, Christopher J. Vogt wrote:
> I consider most of my use of UNIX as a nightmare, and as such I have attempted
> to not remember much of what happened then.  However, I do remember booting
> quite requently, and further I remember lots of programs dumping core.  

Unix has improved somewhat.  Most Unix machines will happily run for a
week or two without rebooting; Linux machines will happily run for a
year or two without rebooting.

RPG was right -- we will have a decent operating system, but
unfortunately it will be Unix :)

Kragen