The future we were robbed of.
>>106776562Saved from you mean
>>106776562>boomers actually think this is comfyleaded gasoline and its consequences
>>106776562I don't care for the rabbit, it frightens me.
>>106776562>Usecase for Plan9?Distributed systems and supercomputing. For desktop creativity and publishing, and the development of applications for such, forget it.>A computer nerd uses a computer in order to use a computer.Driving towards computational purity for its own sake, and the maddening self-referential repetition that brings can only lead to death, which is exactly what happened.
>>106776562>released 1995 for general publicso this bullshit rivalled Windows95? lmao no wonder nobody used it
>>106776684No it didn't, retard zoomer. Just boot up your xbox instead of posting in /g/.
ncnd on the existence or non existence of that one lmao
>>106776632This. Renee French should be permanently banned from publishing any kind of art.
>>106776562>The future we were robbed ofYeah this is why the day of the pillow is coming soon you fucking retards think this is comfy fuck off with this old ass shit
>uhh you can like use resources of another pc on your pc
We weren't robbed of it per se, a lot of these ideas have made their way into our modern computing, and we still have plan9 and 9front releases to use.I don't quite know why the detractors are implying the OP said anything about "muh comfy", I'm not sure the OS was intended for home or entertainment use.it would be interesting to see what they would propose instead.here's some information from the wikipedia:"Plan 9 from Bell Labs was originally developed, starting in the late 1980s, by members of the Computing Science Research Center at Bell Labs, the same group that originally developed Unix and the C programming language.The Plan 9 team was initially led by Rob Pike, Ken Thompson, Dave Presotto and Phil Winterbottom, with support from Dennis Ritchie as head of the Computing Techniques Research Department. Over the years, many notable developers have contributed to the project, including Brian Kernighan, Tom Duff, Doug McIlroy, Bjarne Stroustrup and Bruce Ellis."
>>106776562it is really cool, I've used plan9/9front quite a lot and even 'daily drove' it from drawterm, though I have to agree with eric s. raymond's take that it never stood a chance taking down the goliath standard unix had become by the 90s. though it has an objectively better design to it, it must've been a tough sell for a company to buy this new system when unix had been used for 20 years at that point and had amassed a huge catalogue of software and libraries for it, especially with the rise of free unix systems like the bsd systems and of course that fuckin penguin. of course just because it failed in the industry doesn't mean it can't make a resurgence in free software, projects like 9tools rock! :)
>>106776952>uhh you can like use resources of another pc on your pchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFhQi0xbrOkCrazy how downright impossible this still is on "modern" operating systems.
>>106776562looks gay and retarded
>>106776711>zoomer>xboxYou're ancient kek
>>106776562>The future we were robbed of.You were not robbed. What happened is that the creator of the Plan 9 operating system god bored with it and abandoned it.Then he made Inferno, got bored with that and abandoned that, too.Now he runs his weird text editor (the only thing from Plan 9 that he liked) on his Mac.Would you use an OS that its own creator got tired of? Think about it.
>>106776562>The only people maintaining the project are terrorist tranniesAt least it didn't deserve that fate.
>>106776562Tranny mascot.
>>106780036> weird text editorYes, acme is a non-starter because it is just way too mouse-centric. Cool idea, and I applaud the attempt, but the time has come to say goodbye to that one.Some plan9 stuff has already been incorporated into linux. We’re still waiting for an important one: the re-implementation of tcp/ip as filesystem objects rather than berkeley’s first cut with accept() bind() etc. The cpu server didn’t really pan out. We already had screen, rsh, remote X11. If course, nowadays we also have 64 core machines with 96 core gpus, so much less need to run something on a random “compute” server.Plan9 would have been fine for getting work done though, it’s otherwise unremarkable.
no, Smalltalk systems were supposed to be the future.you are all stuck in thinking of terms of files and shit, using Bash to pipe around strings and shit.everything could have been a Smalltalk, viisual shell. your todo notes could have been graphical arrays of structs or maps (is done?, text). all functionality to operate on these data structures available at a right click, or keyboard shortcut. PNG and JPEG images could just be objects, with graphical displays for editing functionality.all of your data could be automatically persisted to disk, no need to even fucking think about files.the shell simply reloads its state it had when it shut down, everything is back exactly where it originally was.
This is fuckin nasty.
>>106776562Looks like placeholder for future UI. Worst hind of placeholder, neither minimal nor pretty.
>>106780809kind*
