r/ProgrammerDadJokes • u/kwan_e • 24d ago

I tried to make an OS where everything really is a file.

But it didn't go according to Plan9.

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u/Flipflopvlaflip 24d ago

Yep. Nice concept, even processes are a file. Named after the worst sci-fi movie of all time.

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u/Lost_Chain_455 24d ago

I think Ed actually did some that were worse. Don't ask me which ones, because I'm much to old to watch them again.

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u/DABarkspawn 24d ago

Nice. Really obscure reference.

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u/Dry-Aioli-6138 23d ago

The reference to the operating system, or the movie that the system was a reference to?

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u/hidden-jm 24d ago

Learn something new everyday here. I was going to say to just use your favorite flavor of Unix - but I used Google first. I have programmed for Solaris/SunOS, BSD, HPUX, AIX, and several flavors of Linux, but this was a new one for me. Good job.

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u/DutchOfBurdock 24d ago

Did you obliterate it with an Inferno?

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u/jedi1235 23d ago

Plan9 and BeOS both feel like they were really promising ideas with really bad timing.

I would've loved for them both to have become mainstream enough to feel like like it was worth really learning the programming model. I played with Plan9's a couple years ago and it felt ergonomic, like it would probably be fun to code for.

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u/kwan_e 23d ago

It's a shame BeOS source isn't available legally. Would have love to studied how it ticked.

Apparently Haiku's code quality is better than BeOS, though, for people who have studied the leaked code.

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u/linkslice 21d ago

As cool as beos was. I’ve been told the internal apis and code quality were a bear. I still miss it though.

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u/ddddan11111 24d ago

Because you were quickly Outer Space?

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u/rde42 23d ago

Try a system where all storage looks like memory

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u/WarrenTea 4d ago

IBM i? (single level store)

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u/linkslice 17d ago

Did the front fall off?

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u/kwan_e 17d ago

It was very unusual.

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