The most telling thing of all, imho is that the Handbook mentions Windows like twice in the entire thing, each time dripping with contempt. The greatest insult is just how little acknowledgement Windows gets at all. While I don't agree with a lot of the Handbook's assertions, it's a little depressing to consider that these experts' most reviled two OSes also became the world's most popular OSes.
Windows and Windows NT are different OSes. Windows was a glorified DOS shell that ran on top of DOS (NetWare IIRC did something similar but I have little/no experience with it), while NT was a "from the ground up" rewrite that was essentially an OpenVMS clone under the hood. There's also Windows CE (an embedded OS) that died off in favor of cut down versions of NT. That book doesn't really care about Windows NT because Windows NT wasn't around in the early 90s.
There's plenty of that in the hardware side as well. There's DEC Alpha (and the other RISC CPUs to a lesser extent), IBM's MCA expansion cards, the Pebble smartwatch, the Amiga family of platforms, Google Glass, and far more hardware flops to count. There are a lot of nerds who obsess over the "what could have been" aspects of tech and go down that rabbit hole. Oftentimes though they don't end up doing much interesting with many of them depending on the hardware. Some write emulators/games for them or create new MCA expansion cards, while others just obsess over the aesthetics while taking selfies on Twitter.
So "slave" gets replaced by "client" sometimes and "child" other times? And "master" is left alone?
No, I mean that when I first saw it I wondered if OpenBSD would be doing the same. Then I saw that it WAS OpenBSD.
And "server" is from the latin "servus" meaning slave. Guess roman slaves don't count.
It's like the boss's nephew got his hands on all your code at the same time.
Diversity shouldn't be about skin colour, or where you are from. It should be about what you believe and how you think. Skin colour or origin doesn't matter, thoughts and opinions do.
If people believed that on any widespread level, our elites couldn't import infinite third worlders to dilute the labor market and pad the electorate in white countries.
