From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Cross Message-Id: <200104092242.SAA02657@augusta.math.psu.edu> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] micro vs monolithic kernels In-Reply-To: References: <20010409211530.A859E19A09@mail.cse.psu.edu> Cc: Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 18:42:37 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7c7118f0-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 In article you write: >You guys should work in a 'production' environment, you're getting flabby >around your pre-frontals... Well, the point of Plan 9 is to be a research OS, not a system for production. If the Plan 9 folks at Bell Labs started to spend a lot of time polishing up distributions and writing installation documentation, then they'd have little time to push the state of the art. *That* would be a real shame.... Just a speculation, but I'd guess that someone like Russ can, given the correct hardware components, set up a fileserver/CPU server combo plus a few terminals in a known and repeatable amount of time. - Dan C. (ps- I find the Plan 9 documentation refreshingly good. Indeed, sometimes amazingly good.)