Ethan Grammatikidis <eeke...@fastmail.fm> said: > With reference to both this and the Binary Format thread I would like > to say I don't think many people really grasp how different Plan 9's > approach is. Unix was made with the idea of getting away from the > overburdened, ridiculously bloated operating systems of the past. > (Lisp machines could take 15 minutes to start up.) Today the computing > world knows nothing else than trying to add back that bloat unix got > away from, except this time it's usually without the careful design of > the past.
Actually, explaining that in an ezine would make a wonderful article. Actually if I had time I think we could post a half dozen or more references which basically explain this as why Plan 9 was designed and developed in the first place. EBo --
