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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] how people learn things (was architectures)
From: okamoto@granite.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp
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Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 18:12:38 +0900
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Laura--

>The problem with Plan 9 is that people who don't want to program say --
>what will Plan 9 give me? and then they answer 'nothing', and then
>they don't use Plan 9.

Plan 9 gives very much comfortable environment for those who have to
maitain many workstations and PCs in a network.  Plan 9  gives very easy
and hence clear way to make program which can be character based or
graphics based or for network applications.   For the graphics based
program, we now only have a tarse defined interface control(2), which
should be extended by us.  This is the motivation when we started calc2
project.  ^_^  Anyway, if you fit one of above conditions, Plan 9 will be
your favourite OS.

On the other hand, Plan 9 doesn't have many applications like excel or word.
If your main purpose to select your OS is to use such applications, you'd do
MS Windows, I think.   This is what I wanted but forgot to say before.

Kenji