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From: Dave Lukes <davel@anvil.com>
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My 2=A2 worth:

 > In the general case, for desktops and laptops and such, however, it ma=
y
 > well be true that kernels don't matter.

Well, yes and no.

Kernels are also important in the sense that they set the tone for=20
everything above them:
kencc wouldn't have happened on linux, for example.

In the same way, although I work day-to-day on MaxOSX, linux, etc.,
I hope that some of the neat ideas from all of plan9, such as uniformity =

of resources,
permeate what I do.

DaveL.