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From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@planete.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] software quality and popularity
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Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 22:10:37 +0200
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From: "Richard Uhtenwoldt" <ru@river.org>
> ... code written for Unix is difficult to port to Plan 9

it's not that hard, but it depends on what sort of unix braindamage
you've got to port.  i did a very rough port of 10k lines of unix
code to plan 9 in two days.  of course, sam made the task a lot
easier and the code was pretty modular and ran on a variety of
unix varients -- without 'configure'!

hardest part was the mailbox locking protocol and the:

    From ...

    ...

    morF

stuff.