6 Jun
2009
6 Jun
'09
midnight
On Jun 5, 2009, at 5:25 PM, John Floren wrote:
Plan 9! We don't pretend to follow POSIX, we just had Thompson and
Kernighan do what they wanted. ;)
I would love to play with Plan 9 again. Has it been under active
development?
Yeah, it's been under slow but steady development.
I don't know when you last used it, but there are some
really interesting developments recently. For example,
there's a version of the Plan9 kernel that runs in an
interestinging virtualization/sandbox environment
called vx32. So I'm composing this message in the
acme mail client on this 9vx kernel which is running
as a terminal connected to a Plan 9 file server I have
upstairs.
The biggest limitation is in device drivers, particularly
for network interfaces.
BLS
It would be nice to see just about any OS that
wasn't basically
POSIX, or
DOS/Windows running native on a PC.
ColorForth!!