I'm having a hard time dating this rant (despite its historical importance, I can't seem to convince WikiWikiWeb to cough up a page history), but I would guess that it's from ~1996. If so, it is a time capsule that represents the stagnant OS thinking in the mid-1990s: the belief was that Unix was dead (!), that Windows was going to be everywhere (!!) -- or that both of these systems were essentially useless and what we _actually_ needed was radical surgery like object-oriented operating systems or microkernels or exokernels or orthogonal persistence (or all of the above!).
If it needs to be said, this time was a terrible atmosphere in which to aspire to OS kernel development, a suffering that I expanded on (at far too much length!) in a recent BSD Now.[1] I do not miss the mid-1990s at all, and even now, I find that this ill-informed screed fills me more with resurrected anger than it does any sense of vindication or nostalgia...
If it needs to be said, this time was a terrible atmosphere in which to aspire to OS kernel development, a suffering that I expanded on (at far too much length!) in a recent BSD Now.[1] I do not miss the mid-1990s at all, and even now, I find that this ill-informed screed fills me more with resurrected anger than it does any sense of vindication or nostalgia...
[1] http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2015_08_19-ubuntu_slaughters_k...