From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 18:16:40 +0200
From: Tim Panton tpanton@ibm.net
Subject: does Inferno run under Plan9 on a mips magnum 3000?
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Peter Allworth wrote:

> The world desperately needs a network file protocol that isn't a rehash
> of NFS or SMB, and Styx/9P is clearly the way to go. But it's not
> going to be taken seriously unless there is at least the appearance that
> Lucent's full corporate weight is behind it.
> Unfortunately, that's not the way it looks at the moment.

I dont think that matters, 9P is good enough to stand on its own without
Lucent. In fact it's association with Plan9 and inferno might slow down
its adoption in the Web/Java world. There isn't annother remote
filesystem
protocol that is implementable from a document of less than 6 sides of
paper. Hats off to the authors. (But then I'm only halfway through the
implementation, so perhaps I'm speaking too soon).

I'm biased of course, since I'm doing a 9P client in Java at the moment
:-)

> PeterA.

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