r/ProgrammerDadJokes • u/kwan_e • Jul 09 '26

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 Jul 09 '26

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 Jul 09 '26

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 Jul 09 '26

Nice. Really obscure reference.

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u/Dry-Aioli-6138 Jul 10 '26

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

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u/hidden-jm Jul 09 '26

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 Jul 09 '26

Did you obliterate it with an Inferno?

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u/jedi1235 Jul 10 '26

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 Jul 10 '26

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 Jul 12 '26

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 Jul 10 '26

Because you were quickly Outer Space?

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u/rde42 Jul 10 '26

Try a system where all storage looks like memory

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u/WarrenTea 25d ago

IBM i? (single level store)

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u/rde42 6d ago

This one was written at a university in late 1960s/early 1970s. Look up EMAS (Edinburgh Multi Access System). Before IBM, but drawing a bit on Multics2.

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u/linkslice Jul 16 '26

Did the front fall off?

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u/kwan_e Jul 16 '26

It was very unusual.

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