From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on Unix
From: David Gordon Hogan <dhog@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 13:18:42 -0400
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> > The files for libXg and libframe are not the same in all these three.
> > Also the huygens.org version has the thread library included.
> > Is there an 'official version' for the emulation libs containing libthread
> > and the current version of libXg like thereis 9pm for win32 ?
>
> The huygens (who can pronounce that correctly?) version was put
> together to teach a course on concurrency; that's why it contains
> the thread library.  I think it's a little exaggerated to call these
> emulation libraries, but perhaps not mistaken.  However, there are
> lots more variants, mostly associated with Sam variants, and I'd
> really like someone to clean the mess up (hint, hint).

There's also emu and drawterm (though perhaps unifying _all_ of
these is more trouble than it's worth?  Particularly as Inferno uses
a different graphics model...).