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From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] venti ports and productization
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Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 10:26:06 -0400
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On Tue Oct 21 06:27:39 EDT 2003, a@9srv.net wrote:
> ...
> those first two points make me skeptical, but i'll be checking it
> out today. fix those two (so why didn't you use the venti code?)
> and provide a few tools my VP of Marketing can use, and get an
> OS X port, and i'll buy a few coppies.
> =E3=82=A2

The feeling around here is that the Plan 9 Venti code is not a good
base with which to start a port. There may be a re-implementation at
some point, and it will be interesting to compare the tradeoffs each
version makes.