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Disappointments

As with many other operating system projects, the system we actually constructed disappointed us in several ways. It was larger, slower and considerably more complicated than we expected. It has been difficult to explain why this happened, although one possibility is that our expectations were too naive. Chapter 17 details the external manifestations of these problems.

Paul McJones
1998-06-22