Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!usenix!jsq From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: comp.std.unix Subject: Re: Standards Update, IEEE 1003.4: Real-time Extensions Message-ID: <508@usenix.ORG> Date: 12 Sep 90 16:35:12 GMT References: <488@usenix.ORG> <495@usenix.ORG> <498@usenix.ORG> Sender: jsq@usenix.ORG Organization: Teltronics/TCT, Sarasota, FL Lines: 19 Approved: jsq@usenix.org (Moderator, John Quarterman) X-Submissions: std-unix@uunet.uu.net From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) According to gumby@Cygnus.COM (David Vinayak Wallace): >Is this `continued development by the creators of Unix' just going >back to what Unix rejected 20 years ago? They threw away what wouldn't fit. Then they added features, but piece by piece, and only as they observed a need. This cycle has started again with Plan 9, which borrows heavily from Unix -- almost everything lives in the filesystem -- but which is in fact a brand new start. Unix owes much to Multics, and we can learn from it, but we needn't be driven by it. -- Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT , Volume-Number: Volume 21, Number 102