<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Adam Tauno Williams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:awilliam@whitemice.org">awilliam@whitemice.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 08:48 -0400, <a href="mailto:peyeps@iserv.net">peyeps@iserv.net</a> wrote:<br>
> > Message: 5<br>
> > Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:50:26 -0400<br>
> > From: Michael Mol <<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com">mikemol@gmail.com</a>><br>
> > Subject: [GRLUG] Plan 9<br>
> > To: <a href="mailto:grlug@grlug.org">grlug@grlug.org</a><br>
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> > Would anyone happen to have the free time to delve deeply into playing<br>
> > around with and learning Plan 9? I'd like to learn more about it, but<br>
> > I don't really have the time to study up and experiment; I already<br>
> > have enough things brewing.<br>
</div>> Is there a link?<br>
<br>
I have an old link <<a href="http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/" target="_blank">http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/</a>> but it is dead.<br>
I think the Plan 9 project has been at least moribund for a long time,<br>
and is probably dead. Plan 9 is the perfect example [agreed on my just<br>
about everyone] of solution-in-search-of-a-problem. Numerous bits from<br>
Plan 9 like clone and /proc have been absorbed into various other<br>
operating systems. If I recall correctly Plan 9's big 'feature' was<br>
everything-is-a-filesystem. Only all abstractions are leaky and there<br>
really is not compelling reason to deal with the leaks in order to<br>
pretend that some resource is a file or filesystem. One of the biggest<br>
gripes against UN*X was the 'arbitrary' ioctl() call but both BSD and<br>
LINUX have effectively eliminated those.<br>
<br>
I ran Plan 9 once, went "Huh, Ok?", and that was pretty much it. If<br>
someone really wants a blast-from-the-past that is interesting find a<br>
copy of NextSTEP/OpenSTEP [and hardware that can run it]. WOW! Was<br>
that ahead of its time (and *glacially* slow).<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"></div></div></blockquote><div><br>I also ran it on like a 200MHz box way back in the day. It was interesting, but it didn't really do anything that linux couldn't, even back then.<br>
<br>-mm<br></div></div>