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From: Patrick Kelly <kameo76890@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] P9P for Windows?
Date: Wed,  7 Apr 2010 14:41:18 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201004071441.18184.kameo76890@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BBBA2A7.4040300@magma.com.ni>

On Tuesday 06 April 2010 17:07:51 Georg Lehner wrote:
> Hello!
>
> has porting Plan9 from User Space to MS-Windows (and Windows CE) with
> the help
> of pthreads-win32 [1] already be considered?
>
> Would the drawing routines of drawterm for Windows complement for the
> GUI-side of things?
>
> Opinions?  Other approaches?  Effort estimates?
>
> I will be able to throw some time at work on creating either a posix
> layer or
> alternatively port Plan9's libc and rc to Windows CE in the next half year.

May be I misunderstood, but theres no need for another Posix layer ontop of
windows. Theres already Interix, MingW, and Cygwin.

>
> Regards,
>
>     Georg Lehner
>
>
> [1] http://sourceware.org/pthreads-win32/



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-04-07 18:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-06 21:07 Georg Lehner
2010-04-06 22:18 ` Federico G. Benavento
2010-04-07 18:41 ` Patrick Kelly [this message]
2010-04-07 21:05   ` Georg Lehner
2010-04-07 21:16     ` Patrick Kelly

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