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I dunno how "close to the metal" you'd consider that.
("GEFS" being a disk filesystem that's been discussed on HN.)
"Plan 9 praisers who don't actually use Plan 9" have a tendentious way of speaking, that's actually a lot like "AI slop", that Plan 9 users can instantly recognise. Telltale signs include speaking about Plan 9 in the past tense, and a belief that with Plan 9 you can somehow just strap all your computers together to get more performance or something. Because "you have 9P".
Most people use laptops. (Or it's at least 50/50.)
2. I like my "window/s of interest" (the current "task") to be front and centre; I would like my window management when task switching both to do this for me and to set the previous current task aside for me. It seems to me this would require some kind of undiscovered paradigm that isn't tiling or stacking. Ultrawide is just forcing me to direct my attention to a specific off-centre region for extended periods. This feels like holding breath, except psychological - I can only take it so long, then my eyes, by themselves, are going to look at other areas, whether I like it or not. Which is also one reason why tiling is an absolute non-starter for me.
So rc was made for Plan 9. The examples in that paper are definitely on tenth edition Unix, I think this would be because
A fairly complete version of Plan 9 was built in 1987 and 1988, but development was abandoned. In May of 1989 work was begun on a completely new system
from https://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/1st_edition/designing_plan_9 (1990).
What did he mean by this?
The mk paper (and Unix man page) doesn't mention rc.
Plan 9 existed since the mid-80s.
This sentence in the Unix rc(1) sure makes it seem like rc was Plan 9-first:
Environment entries for variables are kludgy for UNIX compatibility.
ls /proc | sed '{grep out usernames}' | sort -u
so it's pretty specific to whatever machine it runs on, as opposed to who's logged into the installation you've run it on.
On another note, on Tenth Edition Unix, when you logged in from a Blit, something would get pipefiled[1] over your tty and wrap writes from new opens in something that puts it to a window-manager window. Possible because of not having name spaces for files.
[1] 'Mounted stream' in http://man.cat-v.org/unix_10th/2/fmount
Yeah, or Tanenbaum's.
For CS-historic significance the ones I would add would be Aho and Steve Johnson.
You don't need to make them go on the internet either.
And apparent "success", in the sense you mean it, isn't, either. It's just kicking the can down the road. Real progress would be the seemingly unproductive, a-month-for-every-year-in-school deschooling period like that of "the sleeping student" at Sudbury[1].
People had the chance this year and the last[2] to let children be free and they blew it.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si0PPv-7yWo&list=PLBC7021B61... [2] We've known since April 2020 that kids don't spread it. Icelandic contact-tracing study.