From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] sam vs acme From: "rob pike" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20010720215817.32CA6199E7@mail.cse.psu.edu> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 17:55:45 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: d249bd18-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > How is "sam -r" be different from running vi (or another tty based > editor of your choice) in a telnet session in a terminal emulator? Local echo and mouse-handling make a difference on slow and, especially, high-latency networks. > Does this mean that every interactive display program that > does large amounts of file I/O but has low information theoretic > bandwidth to the display (e.g. editors, spreadsheets, just > about anything but pictures in fact) should be written in a > split-process style similarly to sam? Isn't that a pretty > big burden for programmers? Isn't there some way to solve this > problem *once* and reuse the solution? Yes, yes, and wouldn't it be nice? -rob