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Regarding "Unix: small and hacked together, success."

My favorite part was:

"He allocated one week each to the four core components of operating system, shell, editor and assembler."

Now that is a productive four weeks!

Maybe the lesson is, if you don't have a working prototype after four weeks, you're doing it wrong. At least when it comes to software. I mean, if that's what it takes for one guy to bang out the first draft of Unix...

Maybe you should leave yourself a bit more time if you're not ken. Then again, maybe not.

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