The UNIX way

What's so cool about the UNIX philosophy? What would a heavy UNIX philosophy operating system look like? What is the most heavy UNIX philosophy operating system out there at the moment, besides UNIX itself?

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If a lot of data is exchanged through the file server, it's going to be significantly slower because you must context switch and wait for the server to parse the data every time. X clients must already do this when they deal with the X server, though, so if you're using a Unix system already there's no reason you should object to this. Windows style (GDI) is another matter...