On 9/6/18, Bakul Shah <ba...@bitblocks.com> wrote: > > But if all you want to do is just run plan9 why even bother? > But that is disingenuous, isn't it? What one wants is Plan 9 as a model for what may be a family of hardware APIs. It makes sense to promote massive parallelism, but the API to it should be sufficiently simple for a single individual to manage.
Most computing devices today are single-user, even those like my new Android phone that offer shared user capabilities. Incidentally, the authorisation model in this case is inadequate for my purpose (share with a pre-teen). So we have layers and we need the complexity to be shoved into well-tested, sealed boxes that can be trusted, while the surface remains as simple as 9P. Any other model, I would prophesise, will reduce to DNA, with luggage such a model is condemned to carry. Lucio.
