From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:43:17 +0100 From: Eris Discordia To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <28A59AFF585A987AA6354E15@computer> In-Reply-To: References: <0657ECBD7EA56D387C67DA6E@computer> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: [9fans] Using the Acme Editor Topicbox-Message-UUID: 00f7b89a-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > take it easy on the porn and get some real sex, eris. you're way too > angry. Sir, yessir! The Marines don't do Japanese, sir! --On Tuesday, August 19, 2008 10:31 PM -0300 Iruata Souza=20 wrote: > On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 8:51 PM, Eris Discordia > wrote: >>> Wrong on so many levels. >> >> Go read the responses 9people gave the original poster. You'll see why >> it's _right_ on so many levels. >> >>> Plan 9 obeys the UNIX way: tools that make jobs simpler. >> >> A UNIX better than UNIX? I thought that was just the thing 9people >> claimed to be past. Didn't I hear someone saying, "Plan 9 is not UNIX?" >> Ahem... GNU's Not UNIX, too, nah? >> >>> "Everything is a UTF-8 [...]" >> >> Do me a favor. Fire up your beloved upas, use mail, and relay one email >> through upas/smtpd to smtp.gmail.com:587 with the words = "=D7=A9=D6=B8=D7=81=D7=9C=D7=95=D6=B9=D7=9D >> =D7=A2=D6=B2=D7=9C=D6=B5=D7=99=D7=9B=D6=B6=D7=9D" (Hebrew, Shalom = aleichem) or "=D8=B3=D9=84=D8=A7=D9=85 =D8=B9=D9=84=DB=8C=DA=A9=D9=85" >> (Arabic, Salam-on alaikom) to my address. Let's see if "the mail goes >> through." >> >>> "Everything is a UTF-8 text file or a mountable filesystem, even = devices >>> and severs" encourages transparency of modules: you can copy a file = from >>> a Gopher network in Tokyo to a mobile phone from Mexico or have the >>> filesystem report how much free space is left without running a million >>> commands or typing a thousand lines of code. >> >> The path from Gopher to your PC--or it was a Mac that you had?--was = paved >> years ago on UNIX. Then the path from Tokyo to Mexico was built on UNIX, >> and today it _runs_ on UNIX. Now, the real problem begins when you want >> to get your cell phone to talk 9P-over-IP. >> >> Do you have a 9P client for your cell phone? You "wrote" it already? >> Does it run on Java? Or Symbian? Or Vendor X's proprietary embedded OS? >> Did you do it on Plan 9? Or did you snatch an SDK written for some other >> livelier OS? >> >> Go fool someone else with your empty rhetoric, buddy. >> >>> If you are not like that, leave. >> >> No, I _am_ not like that. I also _don't_ like that. And I've left. The >> post was not for you to chew on, it was for the benefit of the thread's >> originator. > > take it easy on the porn and get some real sex, eris. you're way too > angry. > > iru