From: W B Hacker <wbh@conducive.org>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Porting to plan9 / PF_UNIX
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 03:29:19 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46212B8F.8030100@conducive.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45219fb00704141015if096876h1d5621b925fad1a@mail.gmail.com>
Lluís Batlle wrote:
> 2007/4/14, W B Hacker <wbh@conducive.org>:
>> LLuis,
*snip*
>> But I am missing an example or three of what you would actually use
>> this for..
>> 370-155's aside, there may be sound reason why there is nothing
>> similar...
> What are 370 and 155?
One of a family of IBM systems for turning batch processing into cash.
Quite a lot of it from 1964 to the present day.
>
> Maybe you could look at the manpage of 'ts' for more information.
>
You describe a method, but not a specific application that benefits from it.
Some - pehaps *all* of what you need to accomplish should be 'doable' within the
existing Plan9 toolset
- just not in quite the same manner as in either the Unix or '370 compatible'
worlds..
Bill
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-14 19:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-14 15:34 Lluís Batlle
2007-04-14 15:55 ` W B Hacker
2007-04-14 17:15 ` Lluís Batlle
2007-04-14 17:28 ` Russ Cox
2007-04-14 17:44 ` Lluís Batlle
2007-04-14 21:17 ` ron minnich
2007-04-15 17:41 ` Lluís Batlle
2007-04-14 19:29 ` W B Hacker [this message]
2007-04-14 16:13 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2007-04-14 17:01 ` Uriel
2007-04-14 21:28 ` John Stalker
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