[mcguire]

"In a way the so called “New Jersey style” was a rush for a minimum viable product able to minimize the time-to-market and to gain the first mover advantage."

Another way of looking at it is that it is an attempt to get something into existence, rather than waiting years for perfection and ending up with nothing. To paraphrase performance work, something is infinitely better than nothing.

I am somewhat interested in the comment, "(the mindful reader will notice that alarm is still waiting to be moved to user space… the fact is that it’s too boring of a task!)" I originally interpreted it as meaning userspace could interrupt the blocking call, but I see its actually a filesystem that interacts with kernel space.

    fd = create("/dev/alarms/new", ~0, pair_ints(getpid(), ms))

Been a long time since I have looked at Plan 9; create has some interesting arguments.

[gumby]

> Another way of looking at it is that it is an attempt to get something into existence, rather than waiting years for perfection and ending up with nothing.

Much as I liked Multics, this is what happened to it.