From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:00:06 -0400 Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:00:06 -0400 From: Scott Schwartz To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] simplicity Message-ID: <20070917200006.GA16311@bio.cse.psu.edu> References: <8ccc8ba40709161155t356da3dcvc9735a2fe4f42a03@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Topicbox-Message-UUID: c0706f16-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 In my experience, the one thing that really gets Plan 9 across to people is the telco server. That's an example of something that you can't nicely do in Unix, and that exhibits power and elegance as a consequence of a few basic design choices.