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From: arnold@skeeve.com
To: tuhs@tuhs.org, dave@horsfall.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Abstractions
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2021 00:13:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202102160713.11G7DDqN014326@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2102160850410.70858@aneurin.horsfall.org>

Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Feb 2021, Jon Steinhart wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > So if y'all are up for it, I'd like to have a discussion on what 
> > abstractions would be appropriate in order to meet modern needs.  Any 
> > takers?
>
> Somebody once suggested a filesystem interface (it certainly fits the Unix 
> philosophy); I don't recall the exact details.
>
> -- Dave

And it was done, over 30 years ago; see Plan 9 from Bell Labs....

Arnold

  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-16  7:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-15 19:56 Jon Steinhart
2021-02-15 21:52 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-16  7:13   ` arnold [this message]
2021-02-16  8:15 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
2021-02-16 10:04   ` Wesley Parish
2021-02-16 19:59   ` Jon Steinhart
2021-02-17  4:01     ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-02-17  6:50     ` Chris Hanson
2021-02-17  4:06   ` [TUHS] SQL OS (Re: Abstractions Bakul Shah
2021-02-16 12:26 ` [TUHS] Abstractions Rich Morin
2021-02-16 22:46 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-02-17 12:09 ` David Arnold
2021-02-20 23:09 M Douglas McIlroy
2021-02-21  8:15 ` Otto Moerbeek
2021-02-21 11:08 ` Rich Morin
2021-02-21 22:40 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-21 23:01   ` Steve Nickolas
2021-02-23  3:31     ` Andrew Warkentin
2021-02-22  0:13   ` Warren Toomey
2021-02-27  2:47     ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-23  0:25   ` Wesley Parish
2021-02-23  0:38     ` Steve Nickolas
2021-02-23  2:50       ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-02-23  3:19         ` Warner Losh
2021-02-23  1:47     ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-02-21 22:54 ` Clem Cole
2021-02-21 10:47 Paul Ruizendaal
2021-02-23 19:37 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2021-02-23 21:02 ` Charles H. Sauer
2021-02-23 21:15   ` Henry Bent
2021-02-24  2:47     ` Greg A. Woods
2021-02-24  3:20       ` Warner Losh
2021-02-24 20:05         ` Greg A. Woods
2021-02-24  1:51 ` Greg A. Woods
2021-02-24  2:23   ` Nelson H. F. Beebe
2021-02-24  4:18 Rudi Blom

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