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> Commands need not be on different lines; instead they may be separated by semicolons. Is that a joke?
What part of it sounds like a joke? That's how it is today too, but it wasn't the case at the time for all environments.
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I can appreciate the response from "alvin" in the superuser comments. Too bad networking was not part of early UNIX; sockets could perhaps have been part of the "carefully selected set of fertile ideas" that could be "keys to the implementation of a _small_ yet powerful operating system." "carefully selected" (i.e., things are deliberately left out) "small" (i.e., smaller than the alternatives) These are ideas in pro…
Yeah, it's unfortunate. There were a number of systems in the past that got very clever with networking and it made everything easier for developers/users. Mostly happened in the 1990's. Most are aware of Plan 9. More interesting were Amoeba distributed OS and Convergent's CTOS. The CTOS was a commercial, alternative to mainframes that distributed the system among cheaper computers. Had a lot of take-up before it was…