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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!news.Hawaii.Edu!uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu!newsham From: newsham@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Tim Newsham) Subject: Re: One more BSD?? just say no. (was Re: Where do we go from here?) Message-ID: <Cow7Ht.3pv@news.Hawaii.Edu> Sender: news@news.Hawaii.Edu Organization: University of Hawaii References: <MYCROFT.94Apr25162542@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <1994Apr26.060607.17149@wx.gtegsc.com> <CovnqF.AyK@biles.com> Date: Wed, 27 Apr 1994 00:46:40 GMT Lines: 28 In article <CovnqF.AyK@biles.com> daniels@biles.com (Brad Daniels) writes: >In article <1994Apr26.060607.17149@wx.gtegsc.com>, >Michael Hoegeman <mh@wx.gtegsc.com> wrote: >> >>It can certainly be argued that Plan 9 is the "next" unix (so to speak) >>and that the various BSD's in comparison are just fanning an ember. I >>understand my analogies are not completely fair but you can see the point >>I'm trying to make. > >I tend to disagree. I have read a few articles on Plan 9, and I attended >Ritchie's talk at Uniforum, and Plan 9 really doesn't look that exciting >except for its signature feature, the ability to have multiple views of >file systems. However, the Hurd has the same features, and assuming >it ever actually gets out the door, looks substantially more promising. Talk about promising, the features of SpringOS from Sun Micro are amazing. They have built a universal naming service in which arbitrary objects can be bound to names. I think this approach is far more attractive than Plan9's "everything is a filesystem" approach. When will the world get to play with a Spring type system? >+ Brad Daniels | "Let others praise ancient times; + >+ Biles and Associates | I am glad I was born in these." + >+ These are my views, not B&A's | - Ovid (43 B.C. - 17 A.D.) +