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From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Private Namespaces for Linux
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Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 13:26:52 -0500
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In article <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111260704450.16611-100000@snaresland.acl.lanl.gov> you write:
>No, it needs to be chucked. But as we all keep saying, "Installed Base".
>You can't ignore that. If you put a really solid Linux emulation layer in
>there (do you really want to support all 220 system calls?) you might have
>a chance. Except it's so much slower in certain areas ... that's a
>problem.
>
>Did you want to take the job of porting Emacs to Plan 9?

What about VSTa?  It seems like it had the right ideas, but never fledged.
I think that the installed base/inertia/glamour thing has a lot more to do
with it than anything else.

	- Dan C.