From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <02c8c2d4168771f9117d1a7690be2f44@brasstown.quanstro.net> <4AE1B0F3.3010103@conducive.org> <3e1162e60910230706p7496c67cl1f60fb86f1a8519b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:41:20 -0700 Message-ID: <3e1162e60910231541v573f00b5wf25def443fb36972@mail.gmail.com> From: David Leimbach To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=000e0cdf1baa2f09b80476a1e91d Subject: Re: [9fans] So quiet! Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8f350828-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --000e0cdf1baa2f09b80476a1e91d Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 That basically encompasses what I meant by "punkrock" :-). On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 3:31 PM, wrote: > I would suggest that we're the most eclectic. > > Try having a conversation with a bunch of 9fans that doesn't encompass > several millennia of culture, technology etc. > > Also I'm fairly certain that a disproportionately large number of 9fans > aren't CS grads. > As with Un*x, it's the people who recognise the power and simplicity who > are the fans, > not the academic dogmatists and fashionistas. > > D > > > On 23 Oct 2009, at 15:06, David Leimbach wrote: > > on the contrary... I have always equated the plan 9 crowd as the >> "most punkrock" of the alternative OS crowd. >> >> >> On 10/23/09, W B Hacker wrote: >> >>> erik quanstrom wrote: >>> >>>> On Thu Oct 22 22:54:41 EDT 2009, ericvh@gmail.com wrote: >>>> >>>>> Everyone is busy drinking and debating protocol semantics. I think >>>>> we've managed to empty the coraid fridge of beer. >>>>> >>>> >>>> skip, sorry about that. we drank all your beer. >>>> >>>> - erik >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> Tsk, Tsk, >>> >>> ..and here some of us thought that Plan9 team were all pointy-haired >>> ivory-tower >>> types who drank only white wine... >>> >>> ;-) >>> >>> ..ducks and waddles offstage... >>> >>> >>> Bill >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> > > --000e0cdf1baa2f09b80476a1e91d Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable That basically encompasses what I meant by "punkrock" :-).

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009= at 3:31 PM, <dave.= l@mac.com> wrote:
I would suggest that we're the most ecl= ectic.

Try having a conversation with a bunch of 9fans that doesn't encompass = several millennia of culture, technology etc.

Also I'm fairly certain that a disproportionately large number of 9fans= aren't CS grads.
As with Un*x, it's the people who recognise the power and simplicity wh= o are the fans,
not the academic dogmatists and fashionistas.

D


On 23 Oct 2009, at 15:06, David Leimbach wrote:

on the contrary... =A0I have always equated the plan 9 crowd as the
"most punkrock" of the alternative OS crowd.


On 10/23/09, W B Hacker <wbh@conducive.org> wrote:
erik quanstrom wrote:
On Thu Oct 22 22:54:41 EDT 2009, ericvh@gmail.com wrote:
Everyone is busy drinking and debating protocol semantics. =A0I think
we've managed to empty the coraid fridge of beer.

skip, sorry about that. =A0we drank all your beer.

- erik



Tsk, Tsk,

..and here some of us thought that Plan9 team were all pointy-haired
ivory-tower
=A0types who drank only white wine...

;-)

..ducks and waddles offstage...


Bill








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