From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 27 20:49:05 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id UAA25052 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 27 Jul 1995 20:49:05 -0700 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA25044 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 1995 20:49:01 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA05389; Thu, 27 Jul 1995 20:48:01 -0700 To: Peter da Silva cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 27 Jul 1995 21:57:06 CDT." <199507280257.VAA17784@bonkers.taronga.com> Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1995 20:48:00 -0700 Message-ID: <5387.806903280@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > I disagree. Oh, not in the user interface model, but in the file system > and process model. It takes the UNIX "everything is a file" a logical > evolutionary step forward. Oh great. One of UNIX's worst abortions, taken to extremes (can you say "ioctl() is a bogus ``API'' for controlling behavior?" I thought so).. I don't think I like plan9 very much, and its window system seems to take the worst shortcomings of X a step further as well. Foo! Jordan