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Can you give an example? That sounds interesting.

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"Systems Software Research is Irrelevant" by Rob Pike

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

There's some pretty brutal truths here.

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.

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