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From: bmaroshe@itcollege.ee
To: Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>,
	Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Acme mailreader - now: User mode filesystems in linux
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 16:31:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1e45f22a0f.22a0f1e45f@itcollege.ee> (raw)

> You're stuck with the operating system you have,
> not the operating system you'd like to have.  If one were
> designing the system from scratch one could always do
> better.  Sadly this Coda discussion is about how to deal with
> what's already available on Unix.
So in your opinion it's better to design systems from scratch than to try to bring good ideas to kludgey ancient systems?

boris



             reply	other threads:[~2004-12-17 15:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-17 15:31 bmaroshe [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-12-16 15:08 [9fans] Acme mailreader David Leimbach
2004-12-16 23:22 ` geoff
2004-12-17  4:55   ` [9fans] Acme mailreader - now: User mode filesystems in linux Martin C.Atkins
2004-12-17  9:54     ` Martin C.Atkins
2004-12-17 10:22       ` geoff
2004-12-17 10:45         ` Martin C.Atkins
2004-12-17 11:42         ` Andy Newman
2004-12-17 15:57           ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-12-17 12:30         ` Latchesar Ionkov
2004-12-17 15:55         ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-12-17 13:41       ` Derek Fawcus
2004-12-17 14:42       ` Karl Magdsick
2004-12-17 14:56         ` Russ Cox
2004-12-18  0:13       ` Tim Newsham
2004-12-18  0:13         ` boyd, rounin
2004-12-18  3:49           ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-12-23 16:04             ` boyd, rounin
2004-12-17 15:44     ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-12-18 12:35       ` Martin C.Atkins

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