Re: [9fans] purposeful omission or amnesia

2008-09-13 Thread Uriel
Yea, fascism and censure will solve the problem! God forbid we stop feeding the trolls! Peace uriel On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 6:53 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: s/completely/almost / Please don't try to educate me This is a mailing list, not your private forum. I'd like to repeat the call

Re: [9fans] purposeful omission or amnesia

2008-09-13 Thread hiro
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 4:54 PM, sqweek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 12:53 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a mailing list, not your private forum. I'd like to repeat the call to suspend anonymous posters. What exactly is an anonymous poster? -sqweek You should

Re: [9fans] purposeful omission or amnesia

2008-09-13 Thread lucio
What exactly is an anonymous poster? Good question. I'll back down, let's encourage purely confrontational postings. Cheers! ++L

Re: [9fans] purposeful omission or amnesia

2008-09-12 Thread Eris Discordia
Neither purposeful omission nor amnesia. Rather pragmatism. Nachos, ReactOS, QNX, and many others are left unmentioned, too. From these QNX has been _really_ successful in the real world and it's fully POSIX. MOS is a book for teaching the natural way to students not the (fruitless) deviation

Re: [9fans] purposeful omission or amnesia

2008-09-12 Thread Eris Discordia
Operating Systems Design and Implementation, 3rd Edition doesn't mention it, but it's the MINIX (ah, MINIX 3) book anyway. Modern Operating Systems, 2nd Edition contains not even a reference. Computer Networks, 4th Edition doesn't mention 9P at all--RPC's there, though. Cool! --On Friday,

Re: [9fans] purposeful omission or amnesia

2008-09-12 Thread Pietro Gagliardi
On Sep 12, 2008, at 8:28 AM, Eris Discordia wrote: completely 'unencumbered' by POSIX. s/completely/almost / Pietro

Re: [9fans] purposeful omission or amnesia

2008-09-12 Thread Eris Discordia
s/completely/almost / Please don't try to educate me P. G. Microsoft got themselves into lots of trouble to make NT almost POSIX compliant and to also create a fully POSIX compliant subsystem (SFU/SUA/Interix). Everybody knows that. The sentence you quoted was a hypothetical, you know, a

Re: [9fans] purposeful omission or amnesia

2008-09-11 Thread Tom Lieber
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Skip Tavakkolian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i was flipping through tanenbaum's modern operating systems - 3e (2008) and couldn't find any mention of plan9, inferno or 9p. how modern is that!? I had an older edition and I don't remember seeing any references in

Re: [9fans] purposeful omission or amnesia

2008-09-11 Thread erik quanstrom
i was flipping through tanenbaum's modern operating systems - 3e (2008) and couldn't find any mention of plan9, inferno or 9p. how modern is that!? that depends on one's definition of modern. i believe the plan 9 guys and tanenbaum had a difference of opinion. cf.