From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: anothy@cosym.net
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: someone thinking about trying plan 9
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Date: Wed,  8 Nov 2000 11:37:22 -0500
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okay, i'll bite. the statement:

//...the X Window System... doesnt happen to
//have been ported to run on Plan 9

isn't entirely correct. from /sys/doc/ape.ps:

//some large systems, including X11, have been ported
//successfully to Plan 9 using APE (the X11 port is not
//included in the distribution, however, because
//supporting it properly is too big a job).

fair enough. however, as much as i hate X (both the
protocol and the code), and as far superior as Plan 9's
/dev/draw and rio are, X is usefull for talking to Unix
systems (which many of us still have to do on ocasion,
unfortunatly). any chance of talking y'all (that is,
whoever in the Labs was responsible for the port) to do
either a Plan 9 package akin to the TeX package, or to
tell the rest of us what was done to make it happen?
-α.