Any opinion on Inferno ? It seems more suited to build a packet-eating-machine (router, firewall, vpn, choose your favorite flavour)... Rubens Kuhl Jr. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vadim Antonov" <avg@kotovnik.com> To: </dev/null@reifchen.ripemtg.ripe.net> Cc: <nanog@merit.edu> Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 12:14 AM Subject: Re: Bell Labs or Microsoft security? | | | On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Daniel Karrenberg wrote: | | > PPS: Plan 9 anyone? | | Anything but _THAT_! At some period of my life I was paid to make | something resembling production system out of Plan 9... it has all the | quality features of v6 Unix, and looks like some student's course project. | There were some interesting ideas, but the coding style was totally | atrocious. Like, fixed size tables everywhere (oh, you run out of 100 | open files, toooo baaaad), little charmers like TCP ACKs being sent in | 20ms timer call-backs (so it works awfully great over 100Mbps ethernet :), | text-based interfaces requiring padding with spaces to some fixed-length | strings, and a zillion other quick hacks. | | "You are in a maze or little twisting cross-mounts, all alike" :) | | To summarize original Unix design & coding style very very concisely: | | % ed | s/a/b/ | ? | | That "?" says all. As a matter of fact, 30 years later ed still says "?". | | --vadim |