From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Nick Roberts Message-ID: <3d729bbe.68184539@news.cis.dfn.de> References: <86e2dbb4.0208291800.5cfd604c@posting.google.com> Subject: [9fans] Re: plan 9 Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 09:13:26 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: e302471e-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Fri, 30 Aug 2002 09:57:14 GMT, Isaac Stern 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