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This is exactly right. The OS isn't a very interesting system any more. Unfortunately the author still identifies it as the system of interest. For example: >
by noelwelsh 12y ago
This is exactly right. The OS isn't a very interesting system any more. Unfortunately the author still identifies it as the system of interest. For example:
> A quote that still holds true, "There has been much talk about component architectures but only one true success: Unix pipes. It should be possible to build interactive and distributed applications from piece parts."
This is completely false. REST/JSON has been fantastically successful.
There is a huge amount of relevant systems work going on, and distributed systems research in particular has never been more relevant. Major systems today (Cassandra, HDFS, Riak, etc.) are directly informed by research. It's just that no-one is really interested in ttys and pipes anymore, and that's what the author identifies as systems.
- javajosh 12y ago>This is completely false. REST/JSON has been fantastically successful. I am a little unclear as to how REST/JSON competes with Unix pipes. Can you clarify your thinking here?
- noelwelsh 12y agoIt's not competition. It's just that the components people wire together aren't command line processes but web services, and JSON/REST is the de facto standard. The author is still concerned with OS processes when the field of interest has moved on to distributed systems.
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- mapcars 12y agoPlan9 is more into distributed systems than everything written with json/rest.
- emmelaich 12y agoThe distributed system of the fairly near future is json/yaml over websockets/http2/spdy. All accessible from the command line or other. 9fans will bemoan the bloat but it will work (mostly :-) and will be popular.
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