From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Mon,  5 Jul 1993 13:26:40 -0400
From: mike@majestix.cs.uoregon.edu mike@majestix.cs.uoregon.edu
Subject: Ported U*ix programs to Plan 9?
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>Er, rather than porting existing stuff (GNU, etc) shouldn't
>you be writing NEW programs with the plan9 model?

I think the only place where the "plan 9 model" is dramatically
different is in window system software.

There's a large amount of unix software that fits plan 9 just
fine, and it would be awfully stupid to reinvent wheels when
there's genuinely new things to work on instead...