From: C H Forsyth <forsyth@vitanuova.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Cc: frigofra@tin.it
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: RPC-esque system calls?
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:07:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1814a1549ea5ff5a8c24d34bb74be8fd@vitanuova.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46a60939$0$37200$4fafbaef@reader3.news.tin.it>
> I posted it to the wrong newsgroup.
no, it was a good group to choose.
if you ignore the jokey comments, read erik quanstrom's note carefully,
and follow up his references, you'll see that plan 9 shows how to do
all that you suggest (or nearly all), simply (much less code and mechanism),
and in fact better in the abstract.
better? take this example, for instance
> > The (ssh-like) URI idea seems to be good enough for it.
> >
> > cat anne@computer_one:/dev/microphone > anne@computer_two:/dev/speakers
See ``The Hideous Name'' (http://netlib.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/doc/85/1-05.ps.gz) for instance,
and note that it dates from 1985 -- 22 years ago!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-24 15:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-24 11:03 [9fans] " Francesco Frigo
2007-07-24 11:35 ` erik quanstrom
2007-07-24 13:24 ` Uriel
2007-07-24 13:46 ` Lluís Batlle
2007-07-24 13:49 ` tlaronde
2007-07-24 14:19 ` [9fans] " Francesco Frigo
2007-07-24 15:07 ` C H Forsyth [this message]
2007-07-25 13:47 ` Joel C. Salomon
2007-07-25 13:54 ` C H Forsyth
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