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Author: Didier Kryn
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Food for thought?
Le 17/02/2024 à 13:20, Johan Helsingius via Dng a écrit :
> On 17/02/2024 11:00, Didier Kryn wrote:
>>       "everything is a file" is an ideal and Linux makes progress in
>> this
>> mater:
>
> Plan 9 (the successor to UNIX at Bell Labs CSRC, by Rob Pike, Ken
> Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Bjarne Stroustrup and
> many others) took it much further. . Windows, network connections,
> processes, and almost anything else is a file or directory.
>

   Yes, the ideal has a name. But I've never seen a computer runing
Plan9. I would sincerely like to have this chance, even a VM. Is
somebody working on it, even as a project?

 --    Didier