> Unix didn't solve problems for developers of large systems
That's a big problem right there. Why are systems large in the first place? http://vpri.org/ already showed we can do smaller —likely by 2 to 4 orders of magnitude. Solving the problems of large systems will only mitigate the symptoms. The root cause is size. We should solve that instead.
Sometimes problems really are just large. Sometimes you need results faster than a single microcomputer's CPU(s) can produce them and UNIX was invented too early to come with solutions for doing that in ways that prevent complexity. HPC is paying the price.
We're fixing it (efforts like Kubernetes, Hadoop, Mesos), but it's tough and we have a long way to go.
That's a big problem right there. Why are systems large in the first place? http://vpri.org/ already showed we can do smaller —likely by 2 to 4 orders of magnitude. Solving the problems of large systems will only mitigate the symptoms. The root cause is size. We should solve that instead.
Why solve problems you can bypass?