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Date: Wed,  7 May 2003 13:34:39 -0700
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David Presotto wrote:

> Ken and Rob thought up the idea of building everything around a
> single file system protocol.

This particular post of Dave's explains the whole plan9 effort in a
simpler and more succinct way than I've seen before. (Not that I've
read every description of why plan9 was undertaken.)

If I haven't missed a better one, I think we should put it in the FAQ.