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From: Vijay Gill vijay@gl.umbc.edu
Subject: SCSI support for PC, file server?
Date: Tue,  8 Feb 1994 16:27:34 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19940208212734.AwWycVQRWtfkorYG4JpjQlQ-GyJisLN4msxT253KwWU@z> (raw)

On Mon, 7 Feb 1994, Gary Capell wrote:

> So does someone have a PC running as a file server somewhere?
> If it's possible to get a Plan9 cpu server, file server and terminal
> with three off-the-shelf PCs, it expands the possible market
> enormously, I think, which means more developers, which means more
> software, and support for more hardware, which expands the market,
> which...oh who am I kidding?

Ok, Forsyth has this exact setup up and running.  I can send out the
war story of his if you want.

Re: Market. I am not sure if going commercial with plan 9 will change
anything any more.  I wish it would, for then I would not have to
program or manage MS-Windows/X11 et al. when I go out to work.
The fact that I am paying for college by adminstrating large unix
boxen is annoying enough as it is.

Plan 9 is very nice but I am not sure if it can make it commercially.
MS-Windows: the stuff nightmares are made up out of.

vijay





             reply	other threads:[~1994-02-08 21:27 UTC|newest]

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1994-02-08 21:27 Vijay [this message]
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1994-02-08  1:23 Gary

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