From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3e1162e60808210631t116624c0gc73f09625893f711@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:31:30 -0700 From: "David Leimbach" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_44213_22113867.1219325490696" References: <5d375e920808210042y15e4f4f9l24d16d3a113bfa33@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] Using the Acme Editor Topicbox-Message-UUID: 04932138-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 ------=_Part_44213_22113867.1219325490696 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 3:58 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: > > A plan9 terminal can run programs, and can have a local storage file > > system, with multiple users. > > i think this is misleading. while the fs running on the terminal can have > multiple users, it is not true that you can have multiple users using > the cpu resources of a terminal concurrently. > > you can have all that and auth if you run a single machine with a cpu > kernel with the downside that if you use the console you must be eve. > > since it's easy to get small, cheep, low-power machines, i run a > traditional terminal with a seperate auth and fs. > You can even run 9vx as a totally reasonable terminal now... On a system that needs not be dedicated to Plan 9, and still have your CPU/FS/AUTH elsewhere. (Thanks Russ!) I'm a big fan of this approach, if people find it difficult to justify a whole machine as a Plan 9 terminal. I think Inferno is somewhat usable for this purpose even too right? I've just never managed to get it going (or admittedly spent much time trying). Dave > > - erik > > > ------=_Part_44213_22113867.1219325490696 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline


On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 3:58 AM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> A plan9 terminal can run programs, and can have a local storage file
> system, with multiple users.

i think this is misleading.  while the fs running on the terminal can have
multiple users, it is not true that you can have multiple users using
the cpu resources of a terminal concurrently.

you can have all that and auth if you run a single machine with a cpu
kernel with the downside that if you use the console you must be eve.

since it's easy to get small, cheep, low-power machines, i run a
traditional terminal with a seperate auth and fs.

You can even run 9vx as a totally reasonable terminal now... On a system that needs not be dedicated to Plan 9, and still have your CPU/FS/AUTH elsewhere.  (Thanks Russ!)

I'm a big fan of this approach, if people find it difficult to justify a whole machine as a Plan 9 terminal.

I think Inferno is somewhat usable for this purpose even too right?  I've just never managed to get it going (or admittedly spent much time trying).

Dave
 

- erik



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