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Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 14:02:42 -0600
From: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
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To: csant <csant@csant.info>,
	Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: 9fans Digest, Vol 27, Issue 52
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csant wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 21:28:58 +0200, Ronald G Minnich
> <rminnich@lanl.gov>  wrote:
>
>> Another thing I ought to mention here. A LOT of the Plan 9 guys have
>> two  spouses: their plan 9 machine and their windows or linux or
>> macos  system. That tells me that Plan 9 has not been, and is not,
>> sufficiently  capable to be the only system one uses.
>
>
> Allow me a question: what exactly is it that the long-term Plan 9 users
> miss on Plan 9, to look for it on some other system? An application I
> understand people use regularly via VNC is a browser - is there
> anything  else that really is missing? You mention "third party apps":
> what exactly  is missing? And mainly: what is the reason for it missing?
>
> /c

oh, and the biggie,

gcc

ron