From: Bakul Shah <bakul+plan9@BitBlocks.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] MS Research reinvents Inferno?
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 10:04:28 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200512131804.jBDI4Sd4082659@gate.bitblocks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 13 Dec 2005 09:49:01 MST." <439EFB7D.4050205@lanl.gov>
> There are no real new ideas in CS popping around at this point, so we
> are reduced to recycling each other's socks. So it goes. We're in an
> evolutionary, not a revoluationary, business. This may be permanent, it
> is hard to tell.
Has there been *any* revolutionary idea in CS since mid 1970s?
upto 1975 (in no particular order)
Monitors
critical regions
synchronization primitives
message passing
rpc
object oriented programming
abstract data types
garbage collection
virtual memory
virtual machines
network file systems
capabilities
networking
atomic transactions
relational database
denotational semantics
functional programming
parsing
hashtables
various search/sort techniques
the following may be post 1975 (but more likely I am mistaken)
non blocking synchronization (more than just compare&swap)
My problem is not with reinvention [very few can be in the
right place at the right time with the right kind of brain]
but just how badly it is done. Or that it starts out right
but then it is left incomplete.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-13 18:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-13 7:02 Skip Tavakkolian
2005-12-13 7:13 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2005-12-13 8:50 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-12-13 15:04 ` Kenneth Long
2005-12-13 12:26 ` Sergey Zhilkin
2005-12-13 16:26 ` LiteStar numnums
2005-12-13 16:30 ` Paul Lalonde
2005-12-13 16:39 ` Brantley Coile
2005-12-13 16:53 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-12-13 17:54 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2005-12-13 16:49 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-12-13 16:57 ` Lucio De Re
2005-12-13 17:02 ` alexandr babic
2005-12-13 17:43 ` Russ Cox
2005-12-13 17:56 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-12-13 20:19 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-12-13 20:52 ` David Leimbach
2005-12-14 2:12 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-12-14 2:19 ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-12-14 10:02 ` Richard Miller
2005-12-14 4:01 ` Bruce Ellis
2005-12-13 17:56 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-12-13 18:07 ` alexandr babic
2005-12-14 0:02 ` Steve Simon
2005-12-14 9:42 ` Richard Miller
2005-12-14 10:09 ` C H Forsyth
2005-12-13 18:16 ` William Josephson
2005-12-13 20:46 ` David Leimbach
2005-12-13 21:05 ` Brantley Coile
2005-12-14 2:05 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-12-13 18:45 ` Brantley Coile
2005-12-13 18:50 ` Russ Cox
2005-12-13 18:55 ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-12-13 19:02 ` Russ Cox
2005-12-14 6:30 ` Jack Johnson
2005-12-14 7:16 ` Jack Johnson
2005-12-14 10:07 ` Richard Miller
2005-12-13 20:49 ` David Leimbach
2005-12-13 22:09 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2005-12-13 21:20 ` LiteStar numnums
2005-12-13 21:54 ` David Leimbach
2005-12-13 20:18 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-12-14 5:56 ` Jack Johnson
2005-12-14 6:02 ` Lucio De Re
2005-12-14 9:50 ` Steve Simon
2005-12-14 6:05 ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-12-14 6:14 ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-12-14 9:28 ` Russ Cox
2005-12-14 7:29 ` Andriy G. Tereshchenko
2005-12-14 14:49 ` Brantley Coile
2005-12-14 10:11 ` Richard Miller
2005-12-14 11:00 ` Russ Cox
2005-12-14 12:47 ` erik quanstrom
2005-12-14 15:06 ` Brantley Coile
2005-12-14 16:20 ` C H Forsyth
2005-12-14 22:00 ` David Leimbach
2005-12-13 17:14 ` David Leimbach
2005-12-13 18:13 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-12-14 3:05 ` erik quanstrom
2005-12-13 17:43 ` Wes Kussmaul
2005-12-13 18:04 ` Bakul Shah [this message]
2005-12-13 18:15 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-12-13 20:04 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-12-14 5:02 ` Jack Johnson
2005-12-14 12:26 ` LiteStar numnums
[not found] ` <000401c5ffe3$22447ce0$14aaa8c0@utelsystems.local>
2005-12-13 13:01 ` "Nils O. Selåsdal"
2005-12-13 16:36 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-12-14 15:42 Brian L.Stuart
2005-12-14 16:20 ` Paweł Lasek
2005-12-14 19:14 Brian L.Stuart
2005-12-14 20:06 Brian L.Stuart
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