Comment by red-iron-pine
7 days ago
i mean they did understand unix, both in that they created it, and created plan9 to be closer to their original vision.
but unix got widely adopted and you go with what sells not blue-sky woulda-coulda
7 days ago
i mean they did understand unix, both in that they created it, and created plan9 to be closer to their original vision.
but unix got widely adopted and you go with what sells not blue-sky woulda-coulda
Yes and no. Defining network devices in a different namespace, for example, was an early break from what might be called the UNIX tradition.