hihi my gateway 386 has an uptime of ~450days but it runs an OLD kernel too 2.2.x
You forgot to mention some important features
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And probably one of the most important features of plan 9 and VSTa is that each program can have it's own namespace. This enables users to mount resources into their own namespace, without disturbing others. And programs can be run at CPU servers by importing the local namespace(that is all the mounts that you have locally) and therefore run transparently at the CPU server as all objects are files and the CPU servers therefore looks exactly the same to the application. sure, rsh/rexec works fine as long as you don't try to write to anything in/dev;)
Another important feature is that you can mount two directories into one! So you could for example mount a fileservers/usr on top of you're own and access both at the same time:)
Re:Who says UNIX can't do distributed?
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hrrrmm...
UNIX was built before networks really existed. It was built for connecting many terminals to one mainframe and working at the same time. And NOT distributing anyting out to other mainframes. Yes, it can be distributed to a certain degree(a lot more than some other OSes) but not as much as OSes that where built for distributed computing, such as plan 9. There's a list of other distributed OSes at this page.
/Erik
Re:Plan 9 (Somewhat tangential)
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VSTa is a plan9ish system that is under development(not much at the moment) and released under GPL. Take a look at the homepage. I think that kind of system is the future in distributed computing.
I think the reason why unix hasn't changed much in the last 20 years is because of backward compability. But there is a major development: plan9, by the people that designed unix. It deals with many of the areas that are badly designed in Unix. Read the FAQ to learn more....
You're entirely right. And the Russians where the first ones to send an unmanned object to space, they where the first ones to send animals to space and they where the first ones to send cosmonauts/astronauts to space. And the only reason they wheren't the first ones to get asrtonauts to the moon was because they had an unfortunate accident, just like the Challenger accident but worse. And they have also put up the most succesful spacestations. So it is certainly not only the USA;ians that can put things in space. And I just want to say that the article is a bit wrong, this was NOT the first unmanned shuttle China has sent to space. That was a sattelite called 'The East is Red'./Erik
I changed to using a Dvorak keyboard about a year ago. It didn't take long at all to get used to them. I think it has made me type a bit faster than before. And I can use a Qwerty keyboard without problem still. I converted a IBM keyboard but Keytronic sells "real" Dvorak keyboards.
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I think Amiga took a patent on using the right mouse button for menus so windows couldn't use it....
hihi my gateway 386 has an uptime of ~450days but it runs an OLD kernel too 2.2.x
sure, rsh/rexec works fine as long as you don't try to write to anything in
Another important feature is that you can mount two directories into one! So you could for example mount a fileservers /usr on top of you're own and access both at the same time :)
UNIX was built before networks really existed. It was built for connecting many terminals to one mainframe and working at the same time. And NOT distributing anyting out to other mainframes.
Yes, it can be distributed to a certain degree(a lot more than some other OSes) but not as much as OSes that where built for distributed computing, such as plan 9.
There's a list of other distributed OSes at this page.
I think the reason why unix hasn't changed much in the last 20 years is because of backward compability. But there is a major development: plan9, by the people that designed unix. It deals with many of the areas that are badly designed in Unix. Read the FAQ to learn more....
You're entirely right. And the Russians where the first ones to send an unmanned object to space, they where the first ones to send animals to space and they where the first ones to send cosmonauts/astronauts to space. And the only reason they wheren't the first ones to get asrtonauts to the moon was because they had an unfortunate accident, just like the Challenger accident but worse. And they have also put up the most succesful spacestations. So it is certainly not only the USA;ians that can put things in space. And I just want to say that the article is a bit wrong, this was NOT the first unmanned shuttle China has sent to space. That was a sattelite called 'The East is Red'. /Erik
well as the topic says... Jefferson Airplane is simply my favorite programming music.
I changed to using a Dvorak keyboard about a year ago. It didn't take long at all to get used to them. I think it has made me type a bit faster than before. And I can use a Qwerty keyboard without problem still. I converted a IBM keyboard but Keytronic sells "real" Dvorak keyboards.