From: Blake McBride <blake@mcbride.name>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Ideas from Plan-9
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 15:47:58 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABwHSOupukfT4O6FTJoL4=uR8ErW_pYmB74zBt_d7PJwPm5ZFw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52AF7017.4020700@lynxline.com>
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I apologize for that statement. I made it before I knew of 9Front and
9Atom. From what I saw, the code hadn't changed in a long time, and
wouldn't boot in any environment I had. All that is false when you take
into account 9Front and 9Atom. I now have 9Front running fine, and, in
fact, I am renewing a port of an OO language extension to it.
Blake
On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Oleksandr Iakovliev
<yshurik@lynxline.com>wrote:
> On 2013-12-15 18:05 , Blake McBride wrote:
>
> In spite of some really great ideas, I think we'd all agree that Plan-9
> has no real future.
>
>
> I would not agree about that. If you would try to have a look at coming
> future tendencies, you would be notified that there is coming what is now
> named as "internet of things" where a lot of material objects in your
> environment will have very small chips which would like to communicate to
> each other and so on (there are already "scary" news about arrested china
> transport containers of electric-irons and kettles which have some extra
> less 1cm chip/device to listen for open wifi nets and spy on them or do
> whatever they are programmed ;) ).
>
> Another tendency which is not so clear now but it is also coming:
> computers/devices/systems/grids which perform actions being same time what
> is called interface-less (good example is your car which automatically
> identify you by sensors and wireless key/cellphone in your pocket when you
> touch cardoor and then system just unlocks that - lot of computations,
> communications and same time interfaceless).
>
> When you try to add these two tendencies to each other it would look like
> that the next generation OSes should be much close to Plan9/Inferno because
> it should easily cover connectivity and inter-communications of these grids
> of tens/hundred/thousands of chips/soc/devices per 10 cubic meters around
> you or worldwide (btw you can just read story about "bad bios" and suspect
> of ultrasonic communications). They(OS) should be simple regarding internal
> design. Parallel programming, computing/resource sharing, CSP, etc is
> highly required and should not be complicated as it is now in world of
> Unix/Linux/MS/Apple and should be possible to be programmed by individuals
> or small groups.
> Why not MS/Apple-like solution - because then such "nets" will be closed
> and not really manageable at all.
> Why not Linux - it is already over-sized and overcomplicated and highly
> resistive to design changes, so even an admin with 1meter beard cannot see
> all especialities of these such system/nets and cannot administering such
> grids manually. Also consider the security of these complicated systems as
> effect of simplicity of design of each part.
> Regarding Apps - Plan9/Inferno have "reverse" idea: instead of App to
> support environment where it has to run, it makes the environment to fit
> the App needs - much more productive, stable, manageable.
> It should be something simple, easy to join in swarm. Then interface part
> does not have such huge value - even if it is ms system with browser - this
> part does not play "key" role anymore. Plan9/Inferno or their derivatives
> now have great chance for resurrection aka phoenix, but not as your laptop
> OS with nicely drawn weather/news widgets or animated icons, though even
> this is possible.
>
> just my 2cents for what we may see next
>
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Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-15 17:05 Blake McBride
2013-12-15 17:18 ` Bence Fábián
2013-12-15 17:51 ` Blake McBride
2013-12-15 18:00 ` Bence Fábián
2013-12-15 18:43 ` Blake McBride
2013-12-15 20:30 ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-15 19:18 ` Steve Simon
2013-12-15 19:28 ` Blake McBride
2013-12-15 19:31 ` Steve Simon
2013-12-15 20:03 ` Blake McBride
2013-12-15 20:17 ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-15 21:17 ` Blake McBride
2013-12-15 21:23 ` Bence Fábián
2013-12-16 0:30 ` Blake McBride
2013-12-15 21:25 ` Lee Fallat
2013-12-15 22:17 ` Blake McBride
2013-12-15 22:06 ` Kurt H Maier
2013-12-15 22:30 ` Matthew Veety
2013-12-15 22:48 ` Tristan
2013-12-15 23:28 ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-17 0:29 ` Jeff Sickel
2013-12-17 4:09 ` Bruce Ellis
2013-12-18 9:47 ` Conor Williams
2013-12-18 20:51 ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-19 22:36 ` Conor Williams
2013-12-19 22:53 ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-19 23:15 ` Conor Williams
2013-12-20 0:29 ` Conor Williams
2013-12-20 0:37 ` Conor Williams
2013-12-20 0:56 ` Conor Williams
2013-12-20 1:44 ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-20 1:53 ` Conor Williams
2013-12-23 23:11 ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-23 23:44 ` Blake McBride
2013-12-24 0:29 ` David Arnold
2013-12-24 1:03 ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-24 3:13 ` Blake McBride
2013-12-24 3:30 ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-24 3:36 ` Blake McBride
2013-12-24 3:45 ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-15 18:59 ` Oleg
2013-12-15 19:13 ` Blake McBride
2013-12-15 20:19 ` Oleg
2013-12-15 20:43 ` Bence Fábián
2013-12-15 20:55 ` Oleg
2013-12-15 20:59 ` Bence Fábián
2013-12-15 20:47 ` Kurt H Maier
2013-12-16 21:26 ` Oleksandr Iakovliev
2013-12-16 21:47 ` Blake McBride [this message]
2013-12-16 21:55 ` Anthony Sorace
2013-12-16 22:08 ` Kurt H Maier
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2013-10-24 7:57 Keith
2013-12-15 18:43 ` Blake McBride
2013-12-16 4:54 ` David Arnold
2013-12-16 19:51 ` tyrrell t
2013-12-16 20:59 ` Charles Forsyth
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