> I think we can have better ideas than that in today's state of the art.

And yet Unix is powering all the supercomputers, six of the seven magnificent seven, the AI revolution, nearly every single computer in all the datacenters around the world, billions of "small" devices, etc.

Can we really do that much better or is it just hubris?

At what point another approach, like the one Windows used, would be considered a failure? Once it's only powering the corporate world and not much else?

And at what point another approach would be considered a success? Once it has replaced Unix on all the supercomputers and in all the datacenters?

People like to snob Unix but the fact is: the world runs on Unix.

P.S: I wrote "Unix" with an 'i' and not a star because I have no clue how to write a star in HN's powerful text editor ; )