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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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