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From: dexen deVries <dexen.devries@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] i'm afraid we've had it wrong
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 20:56:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2085965.Vo6JpMFWa5@blitz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKzdPgxjpRa5_PvvTCu+Q_=GJ7uJRDe2v=u9hLq4YzBMDWfv-Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Sunday 29 of September 2013 10:39:40 Rob Pike wrote:
> He appears not to understand the concept of "research".


and he fails to note that every single thing he mentions has already made its 
way into commercial OSes (at least RedHat has 100% of it; MacOS X has some).

even the /net is widespread in a bastardized form thanks to the 
`/dev/tcp/$IP/$PORT' hack in bash.

-- 
dexen deVries

[[[↓][→]]]

I have seen the Great Pretender and he is not what he seems.




  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-29 18:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-29 16:55 andrey mirtchovski
2013-09-29 17:00 ` Jacob Todd
2013-09-29 17:39   ` Rob Pike
2013-09-29 18:56     ` dexen deVries [this message]
2013-09-29 19:30     ` Kurt H Maier
2013-10-04  9:13     ` Gabriel Diaz
2013-09-29 20:34 ` Charles Forsyth
2013-09-30  2:45   ` [9fans] " Teodoro Santoni
2013-09-30  3:00     ` [9fans] " Matthew Veety
2013-09-30  2:55 ` [9fans] " Teodoro Santoni
2013-09-30  2:59 ` Teodoro Santoni
2013-09-30  3:43   ` [9fans] " Brantley Coile
2013-09-30  6:32     ` Devon H. O'Dell
2013-09-30 13:12   ` erik quanstrom
2013-09-30 13:51     ` Jonathan Cast
2013-10-01  1:03     ` Charles Forsyth

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