I’ve just read some of this book, and I now realize that they *are* serious. Unix and C/C++ *do* have some serious fundamental flaws. But you can’t really blame Ritchie for the fact that others were so eager to adopt his system. As others have pointed out, he was really designing a system for himself and his co-workers, not the world.
Hell, it was an experiment, who knew it would turn into the internet. Vint and Bob did their best.
10^8 would have seemed like plenty to me. But I have limited vision.
/johnny