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From: Tim Newsham <newsham@lava.net>
To: ebo@sandien.com, Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 ezine
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:49:52 -1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.4.64.1002170846280.5454@malasada.lava.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <twig.1266424738.21185@swcp.com>

On Wed, 17 Feb 2010, EBo wrote:

> Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm> said:
>> approach is. Unix was made with the idea of getting away from the
>> overburdened, ridiculously bloated operating systems of the past.
>
> Actually, explaining that in an ezine would make a wonderful article.
> Actually if I had time I think we could post a half dozen or more references
> which basically explain this as why Plan 9 was designed and developed in the
> first place.

Here's a great example from unix:
   http://man.cat-v.org/unix-1st/1/cat
   http://code.google.com/p/unix-jun72/source/browse/trunk/src/cmd/cat.s

simple, understandable, useful, composable.

>  EBo --

Tim Newsham | www.thenewsh.com/~newsham | thenewsh.blogspot.com



      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-02-17 18:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-16 16:45 Enrico Weigelt
2010-02-16 11:52 ` Jacob Todd
2010-02-16 18:11 ` Uriel
2010-02-16 18:16   ` erik quanstrom
     [not found]     ` <5d375e921002161211s762c5e16t332add3c479ded5f@mail.gmail.com>
2010-02-16 20:12       ` Uriel
2010-02-17 12:43   ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-02-17 13:28     ` J Thigpen (cdarwin)
2010-02-17 20:12       ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-02-17 20:45         ` hiro
2010-02-17 20:46           ` David Leimbach
2010-02-17 16:26 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-02-17 16:38   ` EBo
2010-02-17 17:39     ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-02-17 18:49     ` Tim Newsham [this message]

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