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I can appreciate the response from "alvin" in the superuser comments. Too bad networking was not part of early UNIX; sockets could perhaps have been part of th
by aplorbust 11y ago
I can appreciate the response from "alvin" in the superuser comments.
Too bad networking was not part of early UNIX; sockets could perhaps have been part of the "carefully selected set of fertile ideas" that could be "keys to the implementation of a _small_ yet powerful operating system."
"carefully selected" (i.e., things are deliberately left out)
"small" (i.e., smaller than the alternatives)
These are ideas in programming that seem to have been lost over time.
- nickpsecurity 11y agoYeah, it's unfortunate. There were a number of systems in the past that got very clever with networking and it made everything easier for developers/users. Mostly happened in the 1990's. Most are aware of Plan 9. More interesting were Amoeba distributed OS and Convergent's CTOS. The CTOS was a commercial, alternative to mainframes that distributed the system among cheaper computers. Had a lot of take-up before it was canned by Unisys after an acquisition. Couldn't have innovative products threatening their mainframe profits. ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoeba_%28operating_system%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoeba_%28operating_system%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_Technologies_Operating_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_Technologies_Operat...
- aplorbust 11y agoAmoeba was mentioned toward the end of the Hanson paper you cited above. I have read about Convergent in the past, but had not read the Hanson paper. Thank you for that.