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It wouldn't be a bad thing if people learned from the previous iteration. But they don't. In fact, what they generally do is layer an implementation of the stuff they forgot last time on top of the preceding iteration which lacked it. So now, we have clusters of Linux boxes, built with a ton of new tooling on top of Linux because Linux is a UNIX and traditional UNIX doesn't have networking or clustering in the design…
What I don't get about all of this is why one of the big players don't invest heavily in Plan9/Inferno and promoting it. Surely having the networking and clustering code baked in to the OS makes the whole thing both easier and more efficient to run which would mean they'd be able to offer a product that significantly undercut their rivals in terms of price as well as allowing the companies using it to reduce their De…
Inferno was actually originally started to fight against Sun's ideas regarding Java, hence why alongside Limbo, there was also Java support eventually.