[clug] Systems Software Research Irrelevant
Kim Holburn
kim.holburn at anu.edu.au
Thu Jun 17 22:17:50 GMT 2004
I went to a lecture by him last year at UNSW and was very impressed.
He is a very bright guy doing very interesting stuff. His lecture was
about a collaborative text editor that allowed many people to edit a
document at the same time. He talked a lot about a clever design for a
file system that was self-compressing.
On 2004 Jun 17, , at 5:41 PM, Stephen Jenkin wrote:
> http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/rob/utah2000.pdf
>
> Have many of you seen this piece?
> Do you think any/all/some of it is still valid??
There used to be a lot of OS's and somehow after M$ they all somehow
died away. Very sad really and nothing to do with monopolistic
practises by M$?
> Is it just sour grapes from someone who's pet project (Plan 9) didn't
> do
> as well as they wanted.
As I understand it, it didn't do as well because of its weird
restrictive licensing. Plan 9 I have always thought was a very
advanced OS and I wish modern OS's have some of its elements.
> For more on Rob Pike: http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/rob
>
> cheers
> sj
>
> Steve Jenkin, Unix Sys Admin
> 0412 786 915 (+61 412 786 915)
> PO Box 48, Kippax ACT 2615, AUSTRALIA
>
>
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Kim Holburn
IT Manager, Canberra Research Laboratory
National Information and Communication Technology Australia
Ph: +61 2 61258620 M: +61 0417820641
Email: kim.holburn at anu.edu.au - PGP Public Key on request
Democracy imposed from without is the severest form of tyranny.
-- Lloyd Biggle, Jr. Analog, Apr 1961
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