From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:28:46 +0100 From: Eris Discordia To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: [9fans] purposeful omission or amnesia Topicbox-Message-UUID: 102049a4-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Neither "purposeful omission" nor "amnesia." Rather pragmatism. Nachos, ReactOS, QNX, and many others are left unmentioned, too. From these QNX has been _really_ successful in the real world and it's fully POSIX. MOS is a book for teaching the natural way to students not the (fruitless) deviation to "hackers." Plan 9 is _for now_ a marginal player. Just a look at how Anant Narayanan promoted his talk explains it all (and he's a student of Tanenbaum's department): "Plan 9 from Bell Labs is a radically new approach to operating and distributed systems. Unencumbered by requirements such as ANSI or POSIX compliance, the authors were able to take full advantage of modern technology made available to us since UNIX was first conceived." -- http://foss.in/2007/register/speakers/talkdetailspub.php?talkid=388 "Radically new?" "Unencumbered?" "Full advantage?" "Modern technology?" Puh-lease! Microsoft had/has the largest installed base of operating systems and the latest "technology access" and they didn't dare utter that. Imagine this at some Microsoft developer convention: "we present here the new version of Windows, completely 'unencumbered' by POSIX." P.S. This was just some useless whining. A little spark. Let it die on its own... there'll be no flames. --On Thursday, September 11, 2008 12:52 PM -0700 Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com> wrote: > i was flipping through tanenbaum's "modern operating systems - 3e" > (2008) and couldn't find any mention of plan9, inferno or 9p. how > modern is that!? > >