Marc Andreessen
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of software.
And by the way, it worked really well and they were very successful with it, but like it was this huge castle in the sky, but it was this thing, it was almost unapproachable, which is like, you had to be kind of inside IBM or very close to IBM.
And you had to really understand every aspect of how the system worked.
And then the Unix guys originally out of AT&T and then out of Berkeley, um, you know, came out and they said, no, let's have a completely different architecture.
And the way architecture is going to work is we're going to have, we're going to have a prompt and a shell.
And then, and then we're going to, all the functionality is going to be in the form of these discrete modules.
And then you're going to be able to chain the modules together.
And so it's almost like the operating operating system itself is going to be a programming language.
And then that led to the sort of centrality of the shell.
And then that led to sort of, you know, basically changing the other Unix tools.
And then that led to the emergence of these these scripting languages like Perl, where you could basically kind of very easily do this.
And then the shells got more sophisticated.
And then and then and then looked like, you know, that number one, that worked.
And that was the world I grew up in.
Like I was I was a Unix guy, you know, sort of from call it 1988 to, you know, kind of all the way through my work.
and it works really well it's in the background um you know normal people don't need to didn't need to necessarily know about it but like if you were doing like system architecture application development you you knew all about it um and then you know it's been in the background ever since and you know look your mac still has a unix shell you know kind of in there and your iphone still has a unix shell kind of buried in there somewhere so they're kind of in there and then you know the windows shell is kind of a you know sort of a weird derivative of that but um
But look, the internet runs on Unix, and then smartphones.
Actually, both iOS and Android are Unix derivatives, and so Unix did end up winning.
But anyway, and then we just started taking that for granted.
So basically, the way I think about what happened with Pi and then with OpenClaw is, basically, what those guys figured out is, I always say, the great breakthroughs are obvious in retrospect.
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