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From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Cc: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Systematic approach to command-line interfaces
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 14:15:34 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210928181534.F37BC18C0B7@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> (raw)

    > From: "Greg A. Woods"

    > the elegance of fork() is incredible!

That's because in PDP-11 Unix, they didn't have the _room_ to create a huge
mess. Try reading the exec() code in V6 or so.

(I'm in a bit of a foul mood today; my laptop sorta locked up when a _single_
Edge browser window process grew to almost _2GB_ in size. Are you effing
kidding me? If I had any idea what today would look like, back when I was 20 -
especially the massive excrement pile that the Internet has turned into - I
never would have gone into computers - cabinetwork, or something, would have
been an infinitely superior career choice.)

    > I now struggle with liking the the Unix concept of "everything is a
    > file" -- especially with respect to actual data files.  Multics also got
    > it right to use single-level storage -- that's the right abstraction

Well, files a la Unix, instead of the SLS, are OK for a _lot_ of data storage
- pretty much everything except less-common cases like concurrent access to a
shared database, etc.

Where the SLS really shines is _code_ - being able to just do a subroutine
call to interact with something else has incredible bang/buck ratio - although
I concede doing it all securely is hard (although they did make a lot of
progress there).

	 Noel


             reply	other threads:[~2021-09-28 18:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 84+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-28 18:15 Noel Chiappa [this message]
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2021-10-01 12:11 Paul Ruizendaal
2021-09-30 11:41 Douglas McIlroy
2021-09-29 18:07 Noel Chiappa
2021-09-29 19:04 ` Dan Cross
2021-09-29 19:12 ` Larry McVoy
2021-08-03 19:12 Douglas McIlroy
2021-08-03 15:01 Douglas McIlroy
2021-08-03 17:13 ` Tom Lyon via TUHS
2021-08-11 18:11   ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
2021-08-11 21:24     ` Tom Lyon via TUHS
2021-08-02  2:42 Douglas McIlroy
2021-08-02 14:58 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-08-02 18:15   ` Adam Thornton
2021-08-02 18:24     ` Warner Losh
2021-08-02 20:55     ` John Cowan
2021-08-02 21:06       ` Jon Steinhart
2021-08-02 21:25         ` Dan Cross
2021-08-02 21:59           ` Jon Steinhart
2021-08-02 22:33             ` John Cowan
2021-08-03  0:21     ` Bakul Shah
2021-08-03  1:49       ` Jon Steinhart
2021-08-03  3:21         ` Adam Thornton
2021-08-03  3:27         ` Bakul Shah
2021-08-03  3:51           ` Jon Steinhart
2021-08-03  7:19   ` arnold
2021-08-03 23:12     ` Andrew Warkentin
2021-08-04 15:04       ` Paul Winalski
2021-07-31 16:47 Ron Young
2021-08-02  2:34 ` Jim Carpenter
2021-08-02  2:38   ` Ron Young
2021-07-31 16:27 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2021-07-31 12:25 Michael Siegel
2021-07-31 13:05 ` Dan Halbert
2021-07-31 14:21 ` Adam Thornton
2021-07-31 14:25   ` Adam Thornton
2021-07-31 15:45 ` Richard Salz
2021-07-31 16:03   ` Clem Cole
2021-07-31 16:06     ` Richard Salz
2021-07-31 16:21       ` Clem Cole
2021-07-31 16:17     ` Clem Cole
2021-07-31 16:30       ` Dan Cross
2021-07-31 15:56 ` Paul Winalski
2021-07-31 16:19   ` Dan Cross
2021-08-01 17:44     ` Chet Ramey
2021-08-01 21:53       ` Dan Cross
2021-08-01 23:21         ` Chet Ramey
2021-08-01 23:36         ` John Cowan
2021-08-01 23:49           ` Larry McVoy
2021-08-02  0:28             ` Larry McVoy
2021-08-01 23:58           ` Dan Cross
2021-08-02  0:29             ` Steve Nickolas
2021-08-02  0:13           ` Andrew Warkentin
2021-08-02  0:18             ` John Cowan
2021-08-02  0:54               ` Andrew Warkentin
2021-08-02  1:04               ` Dan Cross
2021-08-02  1:05             ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-08-02  2:10               ` Andrew Warkentin
2021-08-02  2:32               ` Bakul Shah
2021-08-02 17:33             ` Lars Brinkhoff
2021-09-28 17:46             ` Greg A. Woods
2021-09-28 18:10               ` Larry McVoy
2021-09-29 16:40                 ` Greg A. Woods
2021-09-29 16:57                   ` Larry McVoy
2021-09-30 17:31                     ` Greg A. Woods
2021-09-29 23:10               ` Phil Budne
2021-08-02 17:37           ` Lars Brinkhoff
2021-08-02 18:52             ` Clem Cole
2021-08-02 20:59               ` John Cowan
2021-08-02 21:06                 ` Al Kossow
2021-08-02 21:14                 ` Clem Cole
2021-08-02 21:13               ` Clem Cole
2021-08-01 16:51   ` Michael Siegel
2021-08-01 17:31     ` Jon Steinhart
2021-07-31 16:41 ` Clem Cole
2021-07-31 17:41   ` John Cowan
2021-07-31 17:30 ` Anthony Martin
2021-07-31 17:46   ` John Cowan
2021-07-31 18:56   ` Michael Siegel
2021-07-31 19:41     ` Clem Cole
2021-07-31 21:30       ` Michael Siegel
2021-08-01 17:48     ` Chet Ramey
2021-08-01 19:23       ` Richard Salz
2021-08-01 23:26         ` Chet Ramey

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