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Date: Fri,  9 Mar 2007 07:52:38 -0800
From: "David Leimbach" <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: interesting potential targets for plan 9 and/or
	inferno
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On 3/9/07, app <porttikivi@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 8, 11:05 pm, mattmob...@proweb.co.uk (matt) wrote:
> > http://9fans.net/archive/2001/06/170
> >
> > From: Lucio De Re <lucio@pro...>
> >
> > Quake is to Linux what 1-2-3 was to the IBM Personal Computer.
> > Without it, I believe, Linux would still be as much of a curiosity as
> > Plan 9 is today.
>
> Early Quake was if not written, at least running on Plan 9, back when
> Carmack was active on this list.
>

See this:

http://lists.cse.psu.edu/archives/9fans/1995-August/003490.html


> Note also that Quake system of ".pakN" files created modern gaming
> with mods. And it is just an emulation of per process files systems
> that John C. got from Plan 9. Just this kind of crude mock
> implementation of this great idea changed the gaming world, even if
> applied narrowly.
>
> What per-process file systems, and "persistent, distributed,
> architecture independet inheritable objects" as "union mountable
> networked file systems" could do to the software engineering, if it
> would become mainstream design principle!
>