From: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] 9vx as a cpu server?
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 09:07:30 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <13426df10902020907i6d47634dj9a3c9ff1afb3f77a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <df49a7370902020854q72986c5sbc73004ad1366b05@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 8:54 AM, roger peppe <rogpeppe@gmail.com> wrote:
> why hasn't that old unix restriction been removed yet?
> is there any point to it at all any more?
They depend on it now more than ever. Don't believe me? Just look at
what port many people use for NFS nowadays.
Lots of bad things have never been fixed, and this is one of them. I
guess it's more fun to lard GUI software over top and hope nobody
notices.
ron
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-02 17:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-01 18:19 Mathieu
2009-02-01 18:29 ` erik quanstrom
2009-02-01 21:29 ` Mathieu
2009-02-01 21:40 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-02-02 4:27 ` Russ Cox
2009-02-02 16:29 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-02-02 16:54 ` roger peppe
2009-02-02 17:07 ` ron minnich [this message]
2009-02-02 17:10 ` erik quanstrom
2009-02-02 19:11 ` Charles Forsyth
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