Discussed at the time (of the talk):
The History of Unix, by Rob Pike [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18417918 - Nov 2018 (47 comments)
The History of Unix, Rob Pike [video] (2018)
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Re: The History of Unix, Rob Pike [video] (2018)
#12I like Rob Pike a lot, but this definitely wasn't his best presentation. It's more like, "Things Rob sorta remembers about the early days of Unix."
Re: The History of Unix, Rob Pike [video] (2018)
#13Sometimes i wonder how our os's would look like if the plan9/inferno idea could catch on.
Android is the closest to it, currently. Managed runtime on top of UNIX like kernel and OS IPC everywhere.
That’s only tangentially similar to Inferno, and completely unlike Plan9.
Even for Inferno the idea was to make the system flexible, Android is everything but.