Unix is an operating system. Its purpose is to operate the hardware inside your computer, and to provide a programmatic and generalized interface to that hardwares' capabilities. As long as Unix continues to operate popular hardware and provide an interface that programmers like, Unix cannot die. I always wondered what 'die' is supposed to mean for software.. on old enough PC machines, there is still MS-DOS that runs just fine, doing what the user wants it to do, and it still works... get a C compiler, you can make it do even more things if you care to.. so how can any software that has a use of any sort 'die'? I wonder if software can get so old that no hardware that runs it exists and absolutely no one runs it, and never will... I guess unix, or msdos or whatever can somehow possibly have no future.. ms is killing msdos functionality in the next version of windows, but that doesn't even kill that old system, so why even doubt that something dynamic and important to the future of the past of all computing like unix is gonna just go away and not be improved or even used as is? The idea of software dying is silly. Support for a certain type of software dying is more likely, even inevitable, but when does an entire system 'die?'
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Well, sometimes that makes me wonder is who writing most of these viruses and how much they get paid.
Unix is an operating system. Its purpose is to operate the hardware inside your computer, and to provide a programmatic and generalized interface to that hardwares' capabilities. As long as Unix continues to operate popular hardware and provide an interface that programmers like, Unix cannot die. I always wondered what 'die' is supposed to mean for software.. on old enough PC machines, there is still MS-DOS that runs just fine, doing what the user wants it to do, and it still works... get a C compiler, you can make it do even more things if you care to.. so how can any software that has a use of any sort 'die'? I wonder if software can get so old that no hardware that runs it exists and absolutely no one runs it, and never will... I guess unix, or msdos or whatever can somehow possibly have no future.. ms is killing msdos functionality in the next version of windows, but that doesn't even kill that old system, so why even doubt that something dynamic and important to the future of the past of all computing like unix is gonna just go away and not be improved or even used as is? The idea of software dying is silly. Support for a certain type of software dying is more likely, even inevitable, but when does an entire system 'die?'