TheoMessing with Version 4 Unix because the only known tape was digitized
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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻💻🧬The successor to #ResearchUnix was #Plan9 from #BellLabs
A better #UNIX than UNIX isn't a UNIX at all. Plan 9 takes the idea of "everything is a file" and it makes it real. In Unix, it's really just an empty marketing slogan. Lots of things, such as trees of process IDs, aren't part of the file system. In some versions, they can be seen via bolted-on extras, such as the /proc in-memory pseudo file system – but you won't find a /proc in macOS, for instance. https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/21/successor_to_unix_plan_9/
A better #UNIX than UNIX isn't a UNIX at all. Plan 9 takes the idea of "everything is a file" and it makes it real. In Unix, it's really just an empty marketing slogan. Lots of things, such as trees of process IDs, aren't part of the file system. In some versions, they can be seen via bolted-on extras, such as the /proc in-memory pseudo file system – but you won't find a /proc in macOS, for instance. https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/21/successor_to_unix_plan_9/
रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)“Why V7 Unix Matters So Much”, Chris Siebenmann (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/V7WhyItMattersSoMuch).
Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29308246
#Unix #C #ComputerHistory #UnixV7 #BellLabs #OS #ResearchUnix