From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: George Michaelson To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] So What is P9 good for..... Message-Id: <20030218092315.46aa00cc.ggm@apnic.net> In-Reply-To: References: <506b74fe73f255fd923ee3f5e5d6e688@mightycheese.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 09:23:15 +1000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6634e7ae-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 STREAMS. so... upper-case-y. Perhaps if RFS had come along in a different year, we'd have felt different about making an RFS vs NFS decision. X was there, SunView was very proprietary. It could have been worse, we might have all been running smalltalk/LISP workstations. Maybe you'd rather be using PNX on a Perq? A system with an editor for the animated cursors? A system which let you see memory usage by stealing graphic memory for compilaton? The best thing about subjective criticism is usually the pint of beer which goes with it! P9 needs to write a better porn distribution protocol. Presuming at least 7 others have been tried before, how about its called PDP-8? -George > > Sockets? X? They're so, well, not Unix-like. > > It's also sad that there are so many people > who believe sockets and X are exemplars > of the Unix style.