From: Nick Roberts <nickroberts@blueyonder.co.uk>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] Re: plan 9
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 09:13:26 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3d729bbe.68184539@news.cis.dfn.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86e2dbb4.0208291800.5cfd604c@posting.google.com>
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002 09:57:14 GMT, Isaac Stern <drmoses@techie.com> strongly
typed:
>I have heard lots of good things about plan9 in a past. How it is
>innovative OS and it takes file abstractions step futher then UNIX,
>but have never really made any serious research on topic.
>Could someone please sum up for me what is new in plan 9 besides it
>being "multiserver/distribured" OS.
I think one of the tenets of the design is to make everything a file
(perhaps with the idea of uniformly applying file security controls to
everything). Thus all devices are seen as files, various OS abstractions,
such as pipes and message queues, are seen as files, and so on.
I personally think this is a daft idea. The object-oriented OS concept is
far more flexible and powerful.
--
Nick Roberts
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-02 9:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-30 9:57 [9fans] " Isaac Stern
2002-09-02 9:13 ` Nick Roberts [this message]
2002-09-02 10:11 ` [9fans] " Lucio De Re
2002-09-02 12:09 ` Steve Kilbane
2002-09-02 14:14 ` Ronald G Minnich
2002-09-02 12:28 Russ Cox
2002-09-02 14:16 ` Ronald G Minnich
2002-09-02 14:44 Russ Cox
2002-09-04 2:37 ` Eric Dorman
2002-09-03 0:35 Geoff Collyer
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