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Meh. Not all programmers are on a UNIX system. Not all programmers are even on UNIX || Window.XX.

But even if there was only UNIX... the entire point of a well designed system is to allow users of the system to reason about it on a high level, not a domain-expert level or even domain-intermediate level. As programmers we reason about code without worrying too much about gate layout on silicon. As non-system programmers we should likewise not need to worry about shoddy OS design.




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