From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 14:55:43 +0000 From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" Message-ID: <396F216C.2B0F8D57@arl.army.mil> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <200007121443.KAA25866@cse.psu.edu>, <200007121455.KAA01408@egyptian-gods.mit.edu>, Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Any significant gotchas? Topicbox-Message-UUID: dc9c9250-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Wesley Felter wrote: > The ScalaServer project proposed another event queue API, which may be > similar to the one recently adopted in FreeBSD. > [etc.] The thing is, Plan 9 is exploring how much can be done using the generalized file access model (9P), not how many different types of things can be crammed into the system. If it can indeed be shown that efficient Web service (for example) is impossible using that model, that is useful and important information. I don't think that has yet been demonstrated.