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
next prev parent 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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