why Unix?

[Sergey Gromov]

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 21:03:54 +0200, grauzone wrote:

>> I can log into ANY Linux, Solaris, BSD, OSX, etc system and have a 
>> reasonable /bin/sh that allows at least bourne shell functionality.  The 
>> same can't be said for almost any other scripting language you can throw 
>> at me.
> 
> Sure, /bin/sh is the least common denominator. But is there a UNIX that 
> can't run python?

Sure there is.  My external disk array runs one.  It's OS fits on a 16
MiB ram-drive, with 3 MiB free, with almost all the shell commands
implemented by an extremely stripped BusyBox.  Still I can telnet into
it and run scripts which Windows can only dream of.