I set out to write a reply, then found that Marshall had said it all,
better..Alas, the crucial central principle of Plan 9 got ignored, while
its ancillary contributions were absorbed into Linux, making Linux fatter
but still oriented to a bygone milieu.

Another entrant in the distributable computing arena is Jay Misra's
"orchestrator", Orc, in which practice goes hand-in-hand with theory:
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/misra/OrcBook.pdf.

Doug

On Thu, Sep 2, 2021 at 8:19 PM John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> wrote:

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> On Thu, Sep 2, 2021 at 5:01 AM Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> wrote:
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>> Linux was
>> designed for a platform that was defined by Intel and Microsoft, and the
>> disfunctional split that Roscoe points out is exactly the split in design
>> responsibilities between Intel and Microsoft.
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> As the saying has it: "What Andy giveth, Bill taketh away."
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