The History of Unix, Rob Pike [video] (2018)

Posted by nsavant on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @01:09AM
from the youtube.com dept.

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Re:The History of Unix, Rob Pike [video] (2018) by nix23 on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @03:25AM (#32066675)

Sometimes i wonder how our os's would look like if the plan9/inferno idea could catch on.

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Re:The History of Unix, Rob Pike [video] (2018) by pjmlp on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @03:30AM (#32066703)

Android is the closest to it, currently.

Managed runtime on top of UNIX like kernel and OS IPC everywhere.

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Re:The History of Unix, Rob Pike [video] (2018) by trasz on Friday July 15, 2022 @03:58AM (#32105833)

That’s only tangentially similar to Inferno, and completely unlike Plan9.

Even for Inferno the idea was to make the system flexible, Android is everything but.

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Re:The History of Unix, Rob Pike [video] (2018) by hulitu on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @02:08PM (#32073672)

Lol. Accessing a file in android is a mess.

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Re:The History of Unix, Rob Pike [video] (2018) by pjmlp on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @03:47PM (#32074769)

Depends on the point of view regarding OS APIs.

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Re:The History of Unix, Rob Pike [video] (2018) by hulitu on Friday July 15, 2022 @06:28AM (#32106653)

As a user i do not use APIs. I use apps. And every attempt to save something is an exercise in pain.

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Re:The History of Unix, Rob Pike [video] (2018) by nix23 on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @05:32AM (#32067526)

>OS IPC everywhere.

Just inside the device ;)

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Re:The History of Unix, Rob Pike [video] (2018) by pjmlp on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @06:04AM (#32067745)

Everywhere was intended on the context of OS stack.

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Re:The History of Unix, Rob Pike [video] (2018) by russellbeattie on Thursday July 14, 2022 @07:15PM (#32102496)

I like Rob Pike a lot, but this definitely wasn't his best presentation. It's more like, "Things Rob sorta remembers about the early days of Unix."

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Re:The History of Unix, Rob Pike [video] (2018) by dang on Thursday July 14, 2022 @06:49PM (#32102335)

Discussed at the time (of the talk):

The History of Unix, by Rob Pike [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18417918 - Nov 2018 (47 comments)

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Re:The History of Unix, Rob Pike [video] (2018) by s_dev on Thursday July 14, 2022 @04:57PM (#32101357)

Sound seems to begin at 3:45

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