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The tradition/joke with OS design is that a worse name typically means a better OS. (Plan 9, Fiasco, ). While ambitious names often denote a bad OS (plenty of e
by toolslive 8y ago
The tradition/joke with OS design is that a worse name typically means a better OS. (Plan 9, Fiasco, ). While ambitious names often denote a bad OS (plenty of examples there ;))
- nine_k 8y agoTo tel the truth, Plan 9 was not a resounding success of adoption. Quite a number of its ideas were re-invented independently, and then became successful. We don't run anything using the Inferno VM, but the JVM reigns supreme in the corporate world. Go flourishes mostly in the normal Unix environment. And that mounting a networked GUI application with half of its code running remotely is completely superseded by the Web platform.
- pjmlp 8y agoRegarding Dis, we at least have Android and Windows, even if is only an approximation. But it would have been better if Inferno had better luck, but what to expect when even Plan 9 fans keep forgeting that the OS had a successor.