On Tue May 8 08:59:23 EDT 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks for the attention. I actually didn't mean it's simple, but > It is elegant, because there is small amount of code, for example > take 8 1/2 and X window systems - they both are graphical, though > Plan9 graphics are a little bit strange, it is many times smaller in > source...
the current system is "rio" --- a successor to 8½. > > Ken Thompson and Rob Pike say that UNIX(R) and all clones of it > are ancient systems, Plan9 is modern; C language is bad, though > Limbo is very good. (prefaced with "as i see it".) the basic problem with unix-type operating systems is they treat the network in a fundamentally different way than they treat the filesystem. network resources are named differently, use special-case file-descriptors, etc. in linux that differences goes all the way down to the slab allocator. there is no way to hand the vfs a socket buffer. i don't think you can say "c is good, limbo is bad". they're different. c is self-hosting. limbo is not. - erik
