From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2012 10:37:39 -0400 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <7fa86f96d7cf9bc0c88f77fc75941cbb@brasstown.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: References: <69436BC3-CFCB-4AC9-BE18-47D6B65044EC@gmail.com> <20120818135611.GB3662@intma.in> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] It seems Plan 9 is on Hacker News Topicbox-Message-UUID: ab888818-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > Not how do we punish John Floren for this statement :-)? > > POSIX defines a pretty good framework, which is why Plan 9 is POSIX-ish. i'd have to say that posix is unixish, and plan 9 is a follow on to unix, so it's not surprising that many of the system calls have survived, if not unscathed. but it's a sibling (or, if you're a positive thinker, distant cousin, once removed) relationship not a parent child relationship. - erik