From: Steve Kilbane <steve@whitecrow.demon.co.uk>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] So, once I've got the OS up how do I...
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 21:26:03 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200102082126.VAA07630@whitecrow.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Feb 2001 20:31:32 EST." <20010208013137.E844A199E3@mail.cse.psu.edu>
rob wrote:
> You can help propagate the message by talking about how the system
> works. Tell stories about how the pieces fit together, how they solve
> problems by design rather than attack by overwhelming features.
I agree. These days, when attempting to explain the appeal of Plan 9,
I compare DNS, resolver libraries and socket calls to cs, the networking
devices, and dial(). This sounds great when describing what happens on
a local machine, but things really kick off when cs and the network
devices are mounted across the network.
steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-02-08 21:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-08 1:31 rob pike
2001-02-08 2:02 ` [9fans] " Jim Choate
2001-02-08 21:26 ` Steve Kilbane [this message]
2001-02-09 7:52 ` [9fans] " Scott Schwartz
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-11-08 6:45 [9fans] Rant (was Re: Plan9 and Ada95?) anothy
2001-11-08 8:05 ` Lucio De Re
2001-11-08 10:36 ` Christopher Nielsen
2001-11-08 18:20 ` cvs et al [Re: [9fans] Rant (was Re: Plan9 and Ada95?)] Ozan Yigit
2001-11-08 10:39 ` [9fans] Rant (was Re: Plan9 and Ada95?) Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-08 21:22 ` Matthew Hannigan
2001-11-09 0:30 ` Steve Kilbane
2001-11-09 7:02 ` George Michaelson
2001-11-09 15:52 ` Caffienator
2001-11-09 21:06 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-02-09 6:33 [9fans] So, once I've got the OS up how do I Jonathan Sergent
2001-02-09 15:26 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-02-09 4:24 kim kubik
2001-02-08 14:07 nemo
2001-02-08 6:20 geoff
2001-02-08 7:08 ` Mike Haertel
2001-02-09 15:26 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-02-09 17:57 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-02-09 18:02 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-02-08 1:47 tad
2001-02-08 1:24 anothy
2001-02-08 1:05 Russ Cox
2001-02-08 5:38 ` Dan Cross
2001-02-06 21:04 [9fans] HOW TO INSTALL? Russ Cox
2001-02-07 23:41 ` [9fans] So, once I've got the OS up how do I Jim Choate
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