From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <283f5df10512131320j1f357613h6aa8631a32125006@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:20:47 -0500 From: LiteStar numnums To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] MS Research reinvents Inferno? In-Reply-To: <2b721dad31e6038e58c46a4d1cdc36cd@9netics.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_1665_30534659.1134508847853" References: <3e1162e60512131249i49d2afc4j288797d7033ceb7e@mail.gmail.com> <2b721dad31e6038e58c46a4d1cdc36cd@9netics.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: c42b27ba-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 ------=_Part_1665_30534659.1134508847853 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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 i= s 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 r=E9volt=E9 ------=_Part_1665_30534659.1134508847853 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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<= br>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 a= ccept what he knows. Atheism for him goes without saying and is "contr= uctive 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=20
is useless, since He wants nothing in particular. If he wanted somethin= g -- and here we recognize the traditional
forumlation of the problem of= evil -- He would have to assume responsiblity for "a sum total of pai= n and inconsistency
which would debase the entire value of being born."
-- Albert = Camus, L'Homme r=E9volt=E9 ------=_Part_1665_30534659.1134508847853--