From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Ronald G. Minnich" To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] So What is P9 good for..... In-Reply-To: <449b922076a2122f384b55b3e3f1aead@collyer.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 23:29:55 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 619e5c2a-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Geoff Collyer wrote: > Yes, one can cite individual complaints about 6th edition, but my > point was that in 1975 or 1976, compared to the other systems of the > day, Unix *seemed* *to me*, as a user, virtually free of arbitrary > limits. exactly. One funny thing I remember is how controversial the idea of a tree-structured file system was. I couldn't find anyone who likd it, as it was obviously an inefficient fad. And how about the whole obviously ridiculous idea of a user-mode command interpreter, and the bizarre concept of forking a new process for things such as date and ls! outrageous! Inefficient! unworkable on "real" systems! Unix was such a breath of fresh air back then. Kind of the way Plan 9 feels. ron