From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] fortune-worthy
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From: John Stalker <stalker@Math.Princeton.EDU>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 11:35:50 -0500
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> I think that the main reason plan9 is behind in development is that most
> members of its community are more interested in the core OS(kernel, venti,
> fossil) than in applications. The problem is that is very diffucult to
> build from scratch applications like apache, MySQL, GIMP, OpenGL etc using
> the native plan9 environment(not ape ports) and then compare the results
> with the UNIX world but that would be the ultimate crash test.

Not to mention that last time I checked we have only one game, snake.
Even my old Vic20 had a choice of 8.
--
John Stalker
Department of Mathematics
Princeton University
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