From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] why not Lvx for Plan 9?
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 17:47:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5905ec798728589930ed2612ef5fcfa7@terzarima.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13426df10807080933u21d3b562ud3f6626346b999cd@mail.gmail.com>
> Think of 9vx and lguest and friends as "software tools". "Software
> tools" did a lot to popularize the ideas of Unix, and made it easier
> for people to consider using the real thing.
yes, but that was when the underlying system was System 370, VMS, PRIME, GCOS, ...
which didn't do all that much for you. now the underlying system has all the fun.
(unless you need to program it.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-08 16:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-08 15:28 kokamoto
2008-07-08 15:58 ` David Leimbach
2008-07-08 16:04 ` erik quanstrom
2008-07-08 16:33 ` ron minnich
2008-07-08 16:47 ` Charles Forsyth [this message]
2008-07-09 4:33 ` LiteStar numnums
2008-07-08 17:46 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2008-07-08 17:49 ` erik quanstrom
2008-07-08 18:38 ` a
2008-07-08 19:01 ` erik quanstrom
2008-07-08 19:46 ` a
2008-07-08 20:03 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2008-07-08 20:15 ` William Josephson
2008-07-08 20:38 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2008-07-08 21:25 ` ron minnich
2008-07-08 22:16 ` Steve Simon
2008-07-08 22:32 ` David du Colombier
2008-07-09 0:01 ` don bailey
2008-07-09 0:13 ` ron minnich
2008-07-09 3:17 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2008-07-09 3:43 ` ron minnich
2008-07-09 3:45 ` erik quanstrom
2008-07-09 4:44 ` David Leimbach
2008-07-08 18:50 ` David Leimbach
2008-07-08 17:19 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2008-07-10 12:58 ` matt
2008-07-10 13:47 ` Russ Cox
2008-07-10 14:03 ` erik quanstrom
[not found] ` <B94154D0-97B5-4FFF-A140-E47D95FC1307@flyingwalrus.net>
2008-07-12 15:59 ` erik quanstrom
2008-07-10 15:18 ` ron minnich
2008-07-10 16:33 ` Charles Forsyth
2008-07-10 16:36 ` ron minnich
2008-07-10 19:25 ` cinap_lenrek
2008-07-10 19:50 ` ron minnich
2008-07-11 9:10 ` Kernel Panic
2008-07-11 16:12 ` ron minnich
2008-07-10 14:01 ` erik quanstrom
2008-07-08 17:27 ` Russ Cox
2008-07-08 17:39 ` a
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