On 3/9/07, app <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mar 8, 11:05 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (matt) wrote:
> http://9fans.net/archive/2001/06/170
>
> From: Lucio De Re <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Quake is to Linux what 1-2-3 was to the IBM Personal Computer.
> Without it, I believe, Linux would still be as much of a curiosity as
> Plan 9 is today.
Early Quake was if not written, at least running on Plan 9, back when
Carmack was active on this list.
See this:
http://lists.cse.psu.edu/archives/9fans/1995-August/003490.html
Note also that Quake system of ".pakN" files created modern gaming
with mods. And it is just an emulation of per process files systems
that John C. got from Plan 9. Just this kind of crude mock
implementation of this great idea changed the gaming world, even if
applied narrowly.
What per-process file systems, and "persistent, distributed,
architecture independet inheritable objects" as "union mountable
networked file systems" could do to the software engineering, if it
would become mainstream design principle!
