3 Sep
2021
3 Sep
'21
9:24 a.m.
I set out to write a reply, then found that Marshall had said it all,
better..Alas, the crucial central principle of Plan 9 got ignored, while
its ancillary contributions were absorbed into Linux, making Linux fatter
but still oriented to a bygone milieu.
Another entrant in the distributable computing arena is Jay Misra's
"orchestrator", Orc, in which practice goes hand-in-hand with theory:
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/misra/OrcBook.pdf.
Doug
On Thu, Sep 2, 2021 at 8:19 PM John Cowan <cowan(a)ccil.org> wrote:
On Thu, Sep 2, 2021 at 5:01 AM Tony Finch <dot(a)dotat.at> wrote:
Linux was
designed for a platform that was defined by Intel and Microsoft, and the
disfunctional split that Roscoe points out is exactly the split in design
responsibilities between Intel and Microsoft.
As the saying has it: "What Andy giveth, Bill taketh away."