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Date: Mon,  2 Jun 2008 19:02:57 -0700
From: "Nick LaForge" <nicklaforge@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] crosstool fails on gentoo
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> it's abstractions, all the way down.  at least until
> mack burps.  he always does.
>
> - erik


we don't get upset about the complexity within
hardware abstractions.

i guess, because we don't usually see it?

and, because software is cheap, it tends to be optimized
for the immediate future, to hack and ask questions
later, even if that means exploding complexity into
my face later on

(did i just argue against source code availability?)

though we've come full circle to the original hardware
interface with 'tiny horrible not xen' and the like.  Only
the interface is buggier and slower.

but we're all familiar with buggy and slow hardware too..