Unix architecture
In this section, we are going to explore the philosophy that the Unix creators had in mind and what they were expecting it to be when they created the architecture.
As we've explained in the previous section, the people involved in Unix from Bell Labs were working for the Multics project. Multics was a big project, the proposed architecture was complex, and it was tuned to be used on expensive hardware. But we should remember that despite all the difficulties, Multics had big goals. The ideas behind the Multics project revolutionized the way we were thinking about the operating systems.
Despite the challenges and difficulties discussed previously the ideas presented in the project were successful because Multics managed to live for around 40 years, until the year 2000. Not only that, but the project created a huge revenue stream for its owner company.
People such as Ken Thompson and his colleagues brought ideas into Unix even though Unix was, initially...
