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From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] What makes Plan 9 unique?
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 09:25:00 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BD8CFC6.FE52091E@null.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011025113635.V2648@cackle.proxima.alt.za>

Lucio De Re wrote:
> > "Nice lines, but so what? Why should I consider Plan 9?"
> I wouldn't try that approach.  Perhaps "what can I learn from Plan 9?"

I agree.  The idea that everybody would be better served by a sudden
switch to Plan 9 is utterly wrong.  There are a lot of factors
involved in choosing a computing platform.


  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-26  9:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-25  9:00 Matt Senecal
2001-10-25  9:36 ` Lucio De Re
2001-10-26  9:25   ` Douglas A. Gwyn [this message]
2001-10-26 14:03     ` Matt Senecal
2001-10-26 15:36 ` Borja Marcos
2001-10-25 11:56 Russ Cox
2001-10-26  9:25 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-10-26 15:01 Russ Cox
2001-10-26 16:48 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-10-29  9:04 ` pac
2001-10-26 16:58 presotto
2001-10-29 10:16 ` Ozan Yigit
2001-10-29 20:54   ` Skip Tavakkolian
2001-10-30 16:50   ` Dan Cross
2001-10-26 17:09 forsyth
2001-10-29  1:56 okamoto
2001-10-29 13:07 bwc
2001-10-29 18:54 presotto
2001-10-29 20:54 David Gordon Hogan
2001-10-29 21:28 David Gordon Hogan
2001-11-05 14:59 ` Jonadab the Unsightly One
2001-11-06 10:22   ` Jonadab the Unsightly One
2001-11-05 22:14 David Gordon Hogan
2001-11-06 10:22 ` Jonadab the Unsightly One
2001-11-06 11:01 geoff
2001-11-06 16:45 Russ Cox
2001-11-06 17:53 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-06 18:28   ` William Josephson
2001-11-07  2:46 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-11-06 17:08 anothy
2001-11-07  1:02 David Gordon Hogan
2001-11-07  6:34 Russ Cox

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