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No it hasn't. There's a ton of cool shit that hasn't been invented yet. What's stopping research is (as rob more or less states) researchers want to make a usab
by mveety 10y ago
No it hasn't. There's a ton of cool shit that hasn't been invented yet. What's stopping research is (as rob more or less states) researchers want to make a usable system more than they want to make an interesting or innovative one. It's going to happen again someday. It has to, a gaping hole like this will get filled in.
- sirtaj 10y agoAlso, in the sixteen years since then some of the core Plan 9 ideas like network block devices, union filesystems, user-space/user-managed mount points and other use of namespaces have indeed made it into other OSes. Perhaps not with the purity that the Plan 9 developers hoped for, but in the end we use computers to get work done.
- pjc50 10y agoSystems which aren't usable don't get used, and so the research stays in the lab. OS choice is a market dominance issue.
- mveety 10y agoThe goal for a research OS isn't market dominance or to have users. It's to test ideas.