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From: Paul Lalonde <plalonde@telus.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] new compilers
Date: Mon,  3 Apr 2006 10:17:00 -0700
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Everything has a file-like interface; the interface is served over a
network routing protocol that makes remote interfaces look just like
local interfaces.

I've had reasonable success that way.

Paul

On 3-Apr-06, at 9:21 AM, Ronald G Minnich wrote:

> Fco. J. Ballesteros wrote:
>
>> When you say "everything is a file", they get scared.
>
> yes, indeedy. "everything is a file" is a really, really bad thing
> to say, I've found.
>
>
>> 	It's so simple that this probably does not work.
>
> go figure. I get that too.
>
>> Simplicity seems to be hard to grasp. And also, most
>> people IMHO really forgot unix and what interfaces are
>> about.
>
>
> what a world, what a world.
>
> ron

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