Re: What do forther think of plan 9 from bell labs?

From	Arnold Doray <invalid@invalid.com>
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Subject	Re: What do forther think of plan 9 from bell labs?
Date	2012-01-14 15:40 +0000
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On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:09:38 -0800, Mat wrote:

> On 10 Jan., 11:39, "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_h...@noavailemail.cmm> wrote:
>> "gavino" <gavcom...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>
>> news:160052.447.1326190982419.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@yqbo42...
>>
>>
>>
>> >  What do forther think of plan 9 from bell labs?
>>
>> Eric S. Raymond already accurately answered that question in the first
>> sentence attributed to
>> him:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs
>>
>> > It seems technically awesome but the user interface kicked my ass.
>>
>> No, it seems obsolete.  Primary development stopped in 2002.  The few
>> "advanced" ideas of value mentioned on the Wikipedia page seem to have
>> been copied by BSD, Linux, and Windows many years ago.
>>
>> Rod Pemberton
> 
> I do not know any other operating system with a common interface and
> single abstraction level for all kind of functionality and possible
> application. Can you give me a hint, how Linux, BSD and Windows
> implementing a similar protocol like 4p ? That would be nice.
> 
> Mat.

Also interesting is that they invented an alternative to TCP called 
"Internet Link" protocol [1] . Any experience with this? 

[1] http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/il/

Cheers
Arnold

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What do forther think of plan 9 from bell labs? gavino <gavcomedy@gmail.com> - 2012-01-10 02:23 -0800
  Re: What do forther think of plan 9 from bell labs? "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@noavailemail.cmm> - 2012-01-10 05:39 -0500
    Re: What do forther think of plan 9 from bell labs? Mat <dambere@web.de> - 2012-01-12 11:09 -0800
      Re: What do forther think of plan 9 from bell labs? Mat <dambere@web.de> - 2012-01-12 11:11 -0800
      Re: What do forther think of plan 9 from bell labs? Pavel Klinkovsky <pavel.klinkovsky@gmail.com> - 2012-01-12 12:53 -0800
      Re: What do forther think of plan 9 from bell labs? "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@noavailemail.cmm> - 2012-01-14 04:30 -0500
      Re: What do forther think of plan 9 from bell labs? Arnold Doray <invalid@invalid.com> - 2012-01-14 15:40 +0000
  Re: What do forther think of plan 9 from bell labs? BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2012-01-10 07:22 -0800

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