From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3e1162e60512090813v6e5f1e9fve6db7ff25230b458@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 08:13:59 -0800 From: David Leimbach To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] gmail 0: messages In-Reply-To: <43979BFA.5020807@moseslake-wa.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_4909_12961782.1134144839515" References: <20051207102914.247b74ab.countryjoe@myrealbox.com> <439789C3.5020501@ajft.org> <20051208013029.GB6804@server4.lensbuddy.com> <43979A0F.1080202@ajft.org> <43979BFA.5020807@moseslake-wa.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: bfd5bdd8-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 ------=_Part_4909_12961782.1134144839515 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On 12/7/05, John Floren wrote: > > Adrian Tritschler wrote: > > > I guess I asked for that one. Ok, who wants to ask Google to implement > > a 9p interface to gmail? > > > I have to go on co-op in two years... maybe I'll apply to Google, saying > "You know, I have a really good idea for Gmail... If you hire me, I can > do it." > The response, when they find out what I did: "We paid you to write an > interface for WHAT operating system?!" :-) You tell them that it's for all 9p speaking systems. That includes linux now with v9fs, hopefully with Alan Cox [FreeBSD Alan Cox], anything that ca= n use Tim Newsham's Python 9p implementation, etc. :) It's not as obscure as it once was. I've seen talk of adding it to OpenBSD as well as a translation layer for DragonFlyBSD's native VFS messaging [wel= l I proposed that one but god knows when I'll have time for that] Anyone interested in adding 9p to NetBSD? :) We'll just spread out like a virus and take over. ;-) Dave John > -- > http://digi.nuwen.net/ > "Who alone has reason to *lie himself out* of actuality? He who > *suffers* from it." > -- Friedrich Nietzsche > ------=_Part_4909_12961782.1134144839515 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline

On 12/7/05, John Floren <jfl= oren@moseslake-wa.com> wrote:
Adrian Tritschler wrote:
<snip>
> I guess I asked for that o= ne.  Ok, who wants to ask Google to implement
> a 9p interf= ace to gmail?
>
I have to go on co-op in two years... maybe I'll a= pply to Google, saying
"You know, I have a really good idea for Gmail...  If yo= u hire me, I can
do it."
The response, when they find out what I= did:  "We paid you to write an
interface for WHAT operat= ing system?!" :-)


You tell them that it's for all 9p speaking syste= ms.   That includes linux now with v9fs, hopefully with Alan Cox = [FreeBSD Alan Cox], anything that can use Tim Newsham's Python 9p implement= ation, etc. :)

It's not as obscure as it once was.  I've seen talk of adding = it to OpenBSD as well as a translation layer for DragonFlyBSD's native VFS = messaging [well I proposed that one but god knows when I'll have time for t= hat]

Anyone interested in adding 9p to NetBSD? :)

We'll just spre= ad out like a virus and take over.  ;-)

Dave
 
John
--
http://digi.nuwen.net/=
"Who alone has reason to *lie himself out* of actuality? &nbs= p;He who
*suffers* from it."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

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