Re: [9fans] MS Research reinvents Inferno?

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I would think that OpenVMS had the ruddimentary ideas, as well as several
other OSs of the time (MUMPS did a semi-decent job back in the day...).
Obviously, plan9 pulled the ideas forward & unified them better, but it
wasn't wholly original.

On 12/13/05, Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com> wrote:
>
> > The subject of this thread is about MS Research reinventing Inferno... I
> > think that's a good indication some people thought it was "merely"
> > derivative :)
>
> it was a question, hence the '?'
>
> my point, as i clarified later, is the lack of acknowledgement for
> prior work.  the victors write the history.  how the majority
> perceive the history, becomes reality.
>
> btw, the first i saw the concept of combining resources, services and
> files in a name space, was plan9.  am i wrong?
>
>


--
Nietzsche's first step is to accept what he knows. Atheism for him goes
without saying and is "contructive and
radical". Nietzsche's supreme vocation, so he says, is to provoke a kind of
crisis and a final decision about the
problem of atheism. The world continues on its course at random and there is
nothing final about it. Thus God
is useless, since He wants nothing in particular. If he wanted something --
and here we recognize the traditional
forumlation of the problem of evil -- He would have to assume responsiblity
for "a sum total of pain and inconsistency
which would debase the entire value of being born."
-- Albert Camus, L'Homme révolté

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