From: "EBo" <ebo@sandien.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 ezine
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:38:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <twig.1266424738.21185@swcp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D44B4756-3CA7-42E2-9946-93BC3D15BC34@fastmail.fm>
Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm> said:
> With reference to both this and the Binary Format thread I would like
> to say I don't think many people really grasp how different Plan 9's
> approach is. Unix was made with the idea of getting away from the
> overburdened, ridiculously bloated operating systems of the past.
> (Lisp machines could take 15 minutes to start up.) Today the computing
> world knows nothing else than trying to add back that bloat unix got
> away from, except this time it's usually without the careful design 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.
EBo --
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-17 16:38 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 [this message]
2010-02-17 17:39 ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-02-17 18:49 ` Tim Newsham
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