> See, the brilliance of Unix didn't stop at functional orthogonality, they also used C: A high-level programming language, as compared to machine-specific assembly code. Once Unix started getting ported to new hardware architectures, the two-dimensional implementation matrix becomes three-dimensional.<p>Yeah, like plenty of other OSes since the late 1950's.<p>Multics was also written in an high level language, PL/I.<p>If anything, I am looking forward to the cloud platforms to replace UNIX.<p>It doesn't matter what AWS runs on, as long as my language runtime, or Kubernetes runs there.<p>UNIX, hypervisor, Linux, Windows, bare metal,...., I just don't care.