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Thanks! I'm a little scared that things haven't change a lot

That is what happens when you get almost a UNIX mono-culture between desktop and server, killing almost all other alternatives that existed.

Nowadays, the only places where OS research seems to be alive is in cloud, embedded and real time OSs.

Rob Pike is hilariously bitter on that point.

Can you give an example? That sounds interesting.

http://slashdot.org/story/04/10/18/1153211/rob-pike-responds...

See the 10th question.

Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8380288

He seemed to have said: "I worked entirely on Plan 9, which I still believe does a pretty good job of solving those fundamental problems."

I would like to hear what exactly was done better in Plan 9 in regards to IPC. If I recall correctly Plan 9 is open source now - is there more development going on now or is it stalled?

There are forks which are undergoing active development like 9front, although I don't think anything from Bell Labs is still coming with respect to plan 9.

"Systems Software Research is Irrelevant" by Rob Pike

http://herpolhode.com/rob/utah2000.pdf

There's some pretty brutal truths here.

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