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From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@planete.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Future of Plan9
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From: <forsyth@vitanuova.com>
> 
> it wasn't state of the art even for the time and systems for
> which it was destined.
>

netscape?  state of the art?  hell it couldn't even call
the BSD/WinSock socket interface right.  how do i know?
not from the code, but from the 'syscalls' i saw on windows.

yeah, i seen some applications call 'connect' and the loop
on write until it _succeeds_ -- beautiful.