From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 12:08:26 -0500
From: Nigel Roles ngr@symbionics.co.uk
Subject: Inferno
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 mail me the reply. thanks.
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It follows. I'm doing good business on this one.

Did you manage to put the Diamond Stealth changes in? I had a quick
look in the .rc and looked as if Sid32 was in as an option, but not
applied.

BYTE STUFF >>>

I quoted keyfs as an example to illustrate how user level
filesystems provide precisely the functionality of a distributed
object oriented operating system. I pointed out that Plan 9
applications do not use delimited streams to communicate, but
read/write/open/close/create/delete of files, which is easily
understood by any programmer, and supported by all programming
languages. He replied

"Thanks for that information. I had been unable to verify information
about Plan 9 directly with Bell Labs due to time constraints and was
working from memory. I did confirm this information with a computer
science professor who was working with Plan 9, but I may have
misunderstood."

I take that as "yes, I didn't know what I was talking about but, hell,
I'm a features editor".


Nigel Roles