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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 07:53:48 -0700
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Geoff Collyer wrote:
> One downside of APE is that it's made some people think of Plan 9 as
> Just Another Goddamned Unix Implementation.

Is this what Dave meant when he wrote:
 > /me shudders at the thought that GUIs might someday take over the
 > world :-(

?

For the record, I think Plan 9 is a textual GUI.  Though you could 
probably swing it with a bare rc shell, unless you can run it on a 
braille term (or hear it through your speakers) it's probably safest to 
call it a GUI.

At this point, I guess I'm thankful that there are no Olfactory User 
Interfaces (though paradoxically I've seen a few that stank).

I did read somewhere that there's a braille term that can draw out 
window regions.  A variation of acme on something like that could be 
interesting.  Mouse actions would take some serious rethought, though.

-Jack