8 Mar
2020
8 Mar
'20
2:25 p.m.
Ralph Corderoy <ralph(a)inputplus.co.uk> wrote:
Hi Larry,
But more than that is that all files are served via the 9P protocol,
even local ones.
This is a great intro to Plan 9: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m3GuoaxRNM
Just over an hour and a quarter, but well worth the time.
Arnold
Did Plan 9 make it sane? If so, care to say how
or point me at something
like Masscomp's introduction to network programming?
There's Plan 9's dial(2) and friends.
http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/2/dial
The ctl file of a connection takes commands like ‘hangup’.
http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/3/ip
The idea of dial() just doing the right thing lives on with Go's
https://golang.org/pkg/net/#pkg-overview
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Cheers, Ralph.