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From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] design issues in operating systems
Date: Wed,  5 Dec 2001 09:56:33 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C0D65C0.457E5C4E@null.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48effcda.0112022010.d4a2c9f@posting.google.com>

north_ wrote:
> Design is in actuality nothing more than a personal concept. Design
> itself is a facade. ...

?  Design is a process by which requirements are combined with
resources, knowledge, and experience to produce a sufficiently
good solution.  The hardest part is getting a handle on the
*real* requirements, as experienced systems analysts can attest.
For example, one Plan 9 requirement seems to be that the people
working on its development have fun doing that, so any design
that doesn't take that into account would be a poor one.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-12-05  9:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-02 17:05 Andrey A Mirtchovski
2001-12-03 10:09 ` josh d
2001-12-03 15:24   ` Ronald G Minnich
2001-12-03 15:08     ` Lucio De Re
2001-12-03 15:48     ` andrey
2001-12-03 18:03   ` Ozan Yigit
2001-12-03 20:51     ` Mike Haertel
2001-12-03 10:10 ` north_
2001-12-03 16:55   ` John S. Dyson
2001-12-05  9:56   ` Douglas A. Gwyn [this message]
2001-12-03 14:49 bwc
2001-12-03 15:45 bwc
2001-12-03 16:07 anothy
2001-12-03 16:04 ` Lucio De Re
2001-12-03 16:27 presotto
2001-12-03 21:31 rob pike
2001-12-03 21:34 rob pike
2001-12-03 22:01 ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-04 19:05   ` Dan Cross
2001-12-04 21:59     ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-07  9:36       ` Barry
2001-12-03 22:50 jmk
2001-12-04 10:36 forsyth
2001-12-04 17:27 erik quanstrom
2001-12-05  8:49 Fco.J.Ballesteros

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