From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: presotto@closedmind.org To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Rant (was Re: Plan9 and Ada95?) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-xlbjshpwqafbqzkyvoxmecldvo" Message-Id: <20011108150009.B16A4199DD@mail.cse.psu.edu> Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 10:00:08 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1a13b66c-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-xlbjshpwqafbqzkyvoxmecldvo Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The lack of a browser pretty much makes it useless for most peoples' laptops. --upas-xlbjshpwqafbqzkyvoxmecldvo Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Received: from mail.cse.psu.edu ([130.203.4.6]) by plan9; Thu Nov 8 05:45:13 EST 2001 Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.20.6]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 9132119A0C; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 05:44:52 -0500 (EST) Delivered-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Received: from mercury.bath.ac.uk (mercury.bath.ac.uk [138.38.32.81]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 36FE1199F1 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 05:43:51 -0500 (EST) Received: from news by mercury.bath.ac.uk with local (Exim 3.12 #1) id 161mbe-0002hm-00 for 9fans@cse.psu.edu; Thu, 08 Nov 2001 10:40:22 +0000 Received: from GATEWAY by bath.ac.uk with netnews for 9fans@cse.psu.edu (9fans@cse.psu.edu) To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" Message-ID: <87n11xyaar.fsf@becket.becket.net> Organization: University of California, Irvine Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii References: <20011107175421.0ECF7199FA@mail.cse.psu.edu>, <20011107202625.D28798@cackle.proxima.alt.za> Subject: Re: [9fans] Rant (was Re: Plan9 and Ada95?) Sender: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> List-Archive: Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 10:39:32 GMT lucio@proxima.alt.za (Lucio De Re) writes: > Let's get off the hobbyhorse of criticising all the alternative > platforms and actually co-operate with them or show that the Plan > 9 way is as superior as we make it out to be. And hey, if it's that superior, it would run on my laptop, right? :) --upas-xlbjshpwqafbqzkyvoxmecldvo--