From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 10:52:19 -0500 Message-ID: <20021116155054.25738.qmail@mail.dirac.net> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] 9x and similar old apps From: kjn9@citizenearth.com Topicbox-Message-UUID: 21a48c0c-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 kjn9@citizenearth.com> Sender: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 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: 16 Nov 2002 15:50:54 -0000 There's a lot of stuff that is either documented, or is rumoured to have existed, but is not in the 4th Edition, probably for sound reasons: alef C++ compiler X server panel library (graphics) native port of limbo's Tk library (was this the same thing as the panel library?) native port of charon web browser Some of these would help attract a bigger community, by allowing a larger range of applications to be ported to Plan 9. The most useful in this regard would of course be the X server - but perhaps X11 is too large to port from the 2nd edition and to maintain (as well as not doing things the "Plan9 way"). Tk is a small widget library that would be very useful, because it is still the most popular widget set for perl, python, and tcl. This would give us access to a huge number of graphical scripts (and an incentive to port tcl), and reduce the Plan 9 learning curve for a large number of Unix developers.