From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <5d375e920901180314t48cde099t3f36fea79afd180d@mail.gmail.com> <730eae2365e8ddd3220c84d7de81b8a1@quanstro.net> Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 01:26:25 -0800 Message-ID: <4e6ca2050901190126xbb8101bm6a623d0bd54186c4@mail.gmail.com> From: Akshat Kumar To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] =?utf-8?q?Les_Mis=C3=A9rables?= Topicbox-Message-UUID: 82a1608a-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 hiro: > Yeah, I think your arguments make perfectly sense. > I would still be interested to know whether Akshat had the same > thoughts in mind:) I have great affinity for everything Plan 9 -- from the superficial interface to the depths of its methodology (although, I was recently dumped by venti). Coding an FS backed application is something I've always wanted to do; one that provides an interface for something I regularly use and understand very well, would be easier than other things. Steve is spot-on. And as Erik pointed out, Inferno simply isn't Plan 9 -- though I still wouldn't mind it on top of Plan 9 if it were not so slow over drawterm/cpu(1) on 9vx. Would I still work on this application? Yeah -- it's not there on Plan 9 natively, which has its own benefits (and comfort -- see above). Beyond that, an even more interesting application would be an IRC server itself, which, with the backing of an FS, could have a dual effect/usage of both, fs attachment (for Plan 9 folks), and the normal protocol connection (for everyone else). This could perhaps employ the Plan 9 namespace methodology for containing some sort of conversation- spaces for users... "and stuff". I won't elaborate... too many ideas popping in and out, for otherwise menial tasks ak