[LINK] making windows secure: sandboxie and other goodies
Kim Holburn
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Mon Aug 7 12:42:46 AEST 2006
On 2006 Aug 07, at 12:19 PM, steve jenkin wrote:
> Rob Pike has a good presentation where he makes the point that cheap,
> ubiquitously available hardware has high 'variety', which has
> forced O/S
> software to compensate... So now we have complex O/S's, whereas
> people
> with constrained hardware (VAX, IBM 370/390 series) don't..
Ahh, you know for a long time I have wanted a usable version of plan
9. It is an OS that is really much better designed from the ground
up. No apps yet :-(
> It's Ashby's Law of Requisite Variety in action:
> For an O/S to present a low-variety interface (i.e. *one* audio
> interface to programs), it has to cope with the huge variety of
> hardware... Otherwise called device driver hell...
You can't really use that to excuse Windows. BSD copes OK but with
windows the underlying design is flawed if you can use a term like
"underlying design" at all when referring to Windows.
Plan 9 is the only OS I've read about that was really designed for a
networking environment. All other OSs had networking patched on
afterward.
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