From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Grozdan Nikolov <microchip@chello.be>, Torsten Duwe <duwe@lst.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How innovative is Linux?
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 22:02:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070623210228.GY21478@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070623202343.621a244b@the-village.bc.nu>
On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 08:23:43PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> Proc type stuff is a lot older than Linux or Unix AFAIK. Loadable modules
> ditto but the full load/unload/autoload stuff I've not seen pre-Linux.
Representation of process state and control of that state via files on
a filesystem? AFAIK, it's 80s stuff and at least one of the sources
had been research branch in Bell Labs - whether you call it Unix or not...
Do you have any references for that animal in earlier systems? A lot
older than Unix would mean 50s or 60s...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-23 21:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-23 12:17 How innovative is Linux? Grozdan Nikolov
2007-06-23 14:43 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-23 15:22 ` Grozdan Nikolov
2007-06-23 15:46 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-23 16:12 ` Torsten Duwe
2007-06-23 16:19 ` Grozdan Nikolov
2007-06-23 16:42 ` Torsten Duwe
2007-06-23 16:54 ` Matthew Jacob
2007-06-23 17:30 ` jimmy bahuleyan
2007-06-23 17:49 ` Diego Calleja
2007-06-23 19:23 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-23 21:02 ` Al Viro [this message]
2007-06-23 22:13 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-23 18:12 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-06-23 19:44 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-23 17:38 ` Benny Amorsen
2007-06-23 19:18 ` Jeffrey V. Merkey
2007-06-23 18:36 ` Grozdan Nikolov
2007-06-24 4:31 ` Rik van Riel
2007-06-23 22:02 ` Carlo Wood
2007-06-23 22:16 ` David Kane
[not found] ` <345c044f0706231513u46d870es6539bdf5797b305b@mail.gmail.com>
2007-06-23 22:27 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-25 9:39 ` Hiro Yoshioka
2007-06-25 22:57 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-06-24 21:36 ` Nikita Danilov
2007-06-23 18:02 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-06-23 18:17 ` Grozdan Nikolov
2007-06-23 17:53 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2007-06-23 18:15 ` Grozdan Nikolov
2007-06-23 18:54 ` jimmy bahuleyan
2007-06-23 19:06 ` Grozdan Nikolov
2007-06-23 23:15 ` Jesper Juhl
2007-06-25 15:12 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-06-25 15:15 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-06-25 16:37 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-06-25 16:42 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-06-25 17:51 ` jimmy bahuleyan
2007-06-26 12:26 ` Helge Hafting
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2007-06-23 17:43 Al Boldi
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