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The History of Unix, Rob Pike [video] (2018)

59 points by nsavant 4y ago

dang 4y ago
Discussed at the time (of the talk): The History of Unix, by Rob Pike [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18417918 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18417918 - Nov 2018 (47 comments)
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nix23 4y ago
Sometimes i wonder how our os's would look like if the plan9/inferno idea could catch on.
- pjmlp 4y ago
  Android is the closest to it, currently. Managed runtime on top of UNIX like kernel and OS IPC everywhere.
  - nix23 4y ago
    >OS IPC everywhere. Just inside the device ;)
    - pjmlp 4y ago
      Everywhere was intended on the context of OS stack.
      - deleted 4y ago
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  - hulitu 4y ago
    Lol. Accessing a file in android is a mess.
    - pjmlp 4y ago
      Depends on the point of view regarding OS APIs.
      - hulitu 4y ago
        As a user i do not use APIs. I use apps. And every attempt to save something is an exercise in pain.
  - trasz 4y ago
    That’s only tangentially similar to Inferno, and completely unlike Plan9. Even for Inferno the idea was to make the system flexible, Android is everything but.
s_dev 4y ago
Sound seems to begin at 3:45
russellbeattie 4y ago
I like Rob Pike a lot, but this definitely wasn't his best presentation. It's more like, "Things Rob sorta remembers about the early days of Unix."