From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Message-Id: <200410240533.i9O5XPJ24186@augusta.math.psu.edu>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] alright, this should be interesting 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 20 Oct 2004 09:45:56 EDT."
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Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 01:33:24 -0400
From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
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Brantley Coile <brantley@coraid.com> writes:
> Personally, I've run Cygwin and, years ago, sam, 9term, and 9wm.  As
> soon as possible I installed real Plan 9.  I've done similar several
> times, and I have always found the simulated environments lacking in
> some way.  I'm not smart enough to know why, or I'm too lazy to give
> it a lot of thought.  It just seemed different in many ways and I
> always came back to real Plan 9.

System emulation layers like plan9ports, cygwin, etc are sort of like
masturbation.  Sure, it's fine when you've got nothing else going on,
but it'll never beat the real thing.

	- Dan C.