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by a-dub
1881 days ago
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> it never was entirely clear what Plan 9 was for. People keep calling it a research OS, but aside from the early 'research-ish' ideas, I don't think there was a lot of actual research. It was sort of more a "daily driver that won't go" (see point 1). There wasn't a whole lot of reevaluation of design decisions either (point 2). There were some really good ideas in it, right from its inception, but calling it a research OS is weird. i always thought it was just a proof of concept for the filesystem they built which was a networkish extension of the original unix ideal (everything on the network is a file)? seems kinda researchy. it was also good for blowing up some crt displays as the video drivers often tried to drive them with unsupported modes. was cool that it fit on a few floppies though. i think it was a tech demo. |
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