From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <7871fcf50703161155n5dbac850r4f1000159829a626@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:55:55 -0400 From: "Joel C. Salomon" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: interesting potential targets for plan 9 and/or inferno In-Reply-To: <20070316182027.C186786ADD@cal1-1.us4.outblaze.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070316182027.C186786ADD@cal1-1.us4.outblaze.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 26b145c6-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 3/16/07, ramkromberg@mail.com wrote: > If plan9 can reach students as part of OS design course instead of linux their`s a good > chance it will get more wide spread (PlanB?), this should be possible because linux is > really badly conceptualized and programmed so a professor might prefer the well written > code of plan9, unfortunately professors are really busy people that won't try plan9 without > a good academic buzz around it - Care to write a paper ? So all we need is a new Operating Systems textbook using Plan 9 for example code? Sounds reasonable: when I took OSs last semester, the professor was using Linux kernel code, heavily edited for readability; I could usually find the same functionality in the Plan 9 kernel code with more readable code. --Joel