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Plan 9 is an amazing, inspirational, and futuristic operating system from the past: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs https://en.wikipedia.org
by jf 9y ago
Plan 9 is an amazing, inspirational, and futuristic operating system from the past: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs
One of the things that Plan 9 can do is seamlessly treat remote resources as if they were local. From what I can tell, this is a remote grid that you can connect a local Plan 9 instance to.
- woolvalley 9y agoDo these i/o interfaces tell you their expected latency and throughput numbers? I could see some fairly silly code being written because they didn't realize that file was actually a a bad cell phone connection.
- nl 9y agoThe main author of Plan 9 was Rob Pike. He knows a little bit about networked software. I actually had Plan 9 working on some Sun 3/50s at one point. You could use it over a 2400 baud modem... a kind of broken one where I had to listen to the connection noises and twiddle the wires at the right moment to make it connect. A bad cell phone connection would have been nice.
- mveety 9y agoHonestly its not so bad over a bad cell connection as long as latency isn't extreme. I've found that throughput isn't a huge issue, but latency is a killer.
- mappu 9y agoKIO does some similarly magical things e.g. click a URL to a jpg file, and it opens in your picture viewer app instead of the browser.
- digi_owl 9y agoSupposedly KIO is what OLE was supposed to be. Never seen it taken beyond KDE though. Then again, KDE had/has many things that nobody seems interested in replicating. like how Konqueror could be divided much like a tiled WM, with each tile holding anything from (khtml driven) web sites, to local, ssh, smb or ftp directories, or even terminals (iirc). One could basically create just the right tool for a local or remote file management job one needed. Sadly i have abandoned KDE since the debacle that was 4.0...