From: Duke Normandin <dukeofpurl@gmx.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2021 11:45:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211228114524.291158da65e83bf3a81e2b95@gmx.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a79631d8-08b2-476b-b9ea-122492a29d12@www.fastmail.com>
On Wed, 29 Dec 2021 03:35:29 +0900
vic.thacker@fastmail.fm wrote:
[snip]
> 9front and Plan 9 are multi-user/multi-tasking distributed
> operating environments. How 9front and Plan 9 are used today
> differs greatly than how it was originally meant to be deployed.
> An end user was meant to login via a Plan 9 terminal to access a
> distrubuted operating environment. Nowadays, folks typically
> install Plan 9 or 9front on a single laptop and use it as a
> terminal and server. Since there is no distributed environment,
> it appears to be single-user/multi-tasking. You were meant to
> shutdown the terminal session, not the server.
Got it!
Is there a not-too-pedantic user manual kicking about? I
mean this like: "Please tell me what time it is; NOT how to make a
watch". :) For the time being anyway. I'm a hacker back as far as
1981. Now I often need a manual. :(
--
Duke
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