Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!news.informatik.hu-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: wjwlsn Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Finally Plan 9 is GPL Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 12:23:43 -04-59 (UTC) Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <53023786$0$29265$862e30e2@ngroups.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit X-Trace: individual.net vg9i6Qhv0D8L1D8JvK6oLwtQYjB8aJbjdAuGkSsK2gdXdG4BWN Cancel-Lock: sha1:Gbx1pvffGM/tni5zrM+Vhqza2nU= User-Agent: NewsgroupsRT/Version 9 In-Reply-To: <53023786$0$29265$862e30e2@ngroups.net> Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:494 > On 2014-02-17 15:05:01 +0000, 2phar said: > > Plan 9 interests me, though I doubt I could get it working on my > hardware. Part of me wonders if the extreme "everything is a file" > philosphy isn't the equivalent of the OSI stack - theoretically good, > perhaps, but maybe too much in practice. You should check out the Plan9 stuff at http://cat-v.org/ ... they forked it quite a while ago, and just released a new version in January. > Also on my list of things to tinker with is a VMS/VAX system. I used > one for producing mechanical drawings back when I was working in > landsurveying for a company that used a drafting program on a MiniVAX. > It was my first exposure to a minicomputer, having spent a couple years > on IBM desktops. VMS is an interesting system. I once administered a couple of DEC Alpha systems that ran OpenVMS 6.1... this was toward the end of the 20th. Anyway, it felt really "old" to me... powerful, but arcane. > Also, Glenda the Rabbit as an icon, is awesome. I think these days > she's one of the best unknown icons out there, less well-known even > than Beastie. Gordon, the Go Gopher (for the Google Go language) is from the same artist, Renee' French. She's married to Rob Pike, a principal behind both projects.