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Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 21:56:31 -0800
From: Jack Johnson <knapjack@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] MS Research reinvents Inferno?
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On 12/13/05, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
> Apologies to those who did read the paper.

Ah, we can still be opinionated bastards anyway. :)

Trivia, from the paper:

"Finally, the /dev namespace is a public directory holding symbolic links t=
o
ServiceProviderContract endpoints in the /hardware/drivers subtree. In
this manner,
an application can be bound to a public name, without knowing the true
name of the driver."

Just randomly caught my eye for three reasons:

 - /dev seems awfully Unixish
 - nice to see forward slashes as path delimiters in a Microsoft OS
(other than Xenix)
 - are there symbolic links in any other Microsoft OSes?

-Jack