From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Elbing Miss To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: interesting potential targets for plan 9 and/or inferno Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 23:08:50 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <20070307084327.Y60404@orthanc.ca> <1173439448.961081.199210@v33g2000cwv.googlegroups.com> <3e1162e60703090752s4e78bd8atf86f5055f2e5a81a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3e1162e60703090752s4e78bd8atf86f5055f2e5a81a@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200703092308.50124.elbingmiss@gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1f17d32a-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Friday 09 March 2007 16:52:38 David Leimbach wrote: > On 3/9/07, app wrote: > > On Mar 8, 11:05 pm, mattmob...@proweb.co.uk (matt) wrote: > > > http://9fans.net/archive/2001/06/170 > > > > > > From: Lucio De Re > > > > > > Quake is to Linux what 1-2-3 was to the IBM Personal Computer. > > > Without it, I believe, Linux would still be as much of a curiosity as > > > Plan 9 is today. > > > > Early Quake was if not written, at least running on Plan 9, back when > > Carmack was active on this list. > > See this: > > http://lists.cse.psu.edu/archives/9fans/1995-August/003490.html > > > Note also that Quake system of ".pakN" files created modern gaming > > with mods. And it is just an emulation of per process files systems > > that John C. got from Plan 9. Just this kind of crude mock > > implementation of this great idea changed the gaming world, even if > > applied narrowly. > > > > What per-process file systems, and "persistent, distributed, > > architecture independet inheritable objects" as "union mountable > > networked file systems" could do to the software engineering, if it > > would become mainstream design principle! What is the end of story? Is there any quake for plan 9? at least... engines perhaps? unfinished code? When I tried to port doom for plan 9 (today even in linux with xorg 7 don't work any existent port nicely... if any of them works without old extensions) Uriel told me about John C. and Plan 9; but I can't find any code about that, just posts in 9fans. Maybe Idsoftware is the actual propietary of that hipothetic code, but it would be fun to try play quake in plan 9 in our days. Of course, in this Ferrari Os maybe we don't need anything from windows and linux: desktop, icons... including games, but I love play with my computer. -- Elbing