Pike, R. (2000). Systems Software Research is Irrelevant

A “polemic” about how “hardware is evolving but software is stagnant.” Where are the new operating systems? The new paradigms? “The art is gone.”

“The web happened in the early 1990s and it surprised the computer science community as much as the commercial one.” <- this does seem like an important indictment of sorts.

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