From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:49:52 -1000 From: Tim Newsham To: ebo@sandien.com, Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20100216164550.GA8621@nibiru.local>, <20100216164550.GA8621@nibiru.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 ezine Topicbox-Message-UUID: d5c564ae-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Wed, 17 Feb 2010, EBo wrote: > Ethan Grammatikidis 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